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Ziauddin Sandar summarizes the main drive behind this Project as follows: “The task before Muslim intelligentsia, then, is to develop, using the epistemology of Islam, alternative paradigms of knowledge for both natural and social sciences and to conceive and mold disciplines most relevant to the needs of contemporary Muslim societies.
To better understand the historical context in which he places his argument, the following thoughts of Niebuhr are quoted: “The Renaissance as a spiritual movement is best understood as a tremendous affirmation of the limitless possibilities of human existence, and as a rediscovery of the sense of a meaningful history.
the way to our salvation lies not in conquering nature but in following the commandments which God has revealed to us?” Secularization has perpetuated an environment of alienation between man and God. Smith maintains that a sense of fragmentation pervades the basic attitudes of Western man toward life and society: “I have argued that the distinctive ' ' feature of the contemporary mind as evidenced by frontier thinking in science, philosophy, theology and the arts is its acceptance of reality as unordered in any objective way that man’s mind can discern?” Smith’s response to the prevalent sense of epistemological and social fragmentation in the West is to call for the recovery of its historical and epistemological continuity with its past.
In other words, Muslims have to transcend their sense of inferiority vis-a-vis the West, if there is any, by developing a new discourse that demonstrates complete comprehension of its history, culture, philosophy, and impact on the rest of the world.