Redirection of the Sacred The intricacies of Islamic meaning

Abstract

In the simulacra generating age of postmodemity, the hyper-reality
of contemporary society and an “anarchic” sociality warrants an
investigation into rampant consumerism, the decline of rationalist
fundamentalism as the ideology of modernity and the plethora of
resurgent-cum-resistant movements. With this scenario, the article
attempts to ascertain the value of postmodemism to Islamic scholarship
in resolving the dialectic of metanmtives and relativism, Muslim
scholars must be vigilant of postmodemism as a western construct and
redefine its experience through Islamic phenomenology by exploring
the complexities of heterogeneity and principles of humanity as
opposed to a radical postmodemism that negates humanity as
a meta-narrative and the celebration of egocentricity. Islam’s
“occidentalism” is not a mental projection of moral superiority against
the “Other” but a progressive discourse aiming to discover a
universally tolerant projection and manifestation of Islam’s ummatic
body and a representation of its tradition in a new age of possibilities.