It is stated in book titled 'Dawair al Khouf: Qiraat fi khitab al Mar'ah [circle of fear: a read on woman discource] that males in traditional society actually are afraid of females. This might be caused by several reasons such as the fact that females have more patience and tolerace compared to men do, and the fact that they are the live makers [shani'ah al hayah]. The last thing is in fact su…
Syayed Hussain Nasr is ewell-known as a western graduate scientist who is not only critical to the structure of western civilization but also to muslim society itself. As a traditionalist employing perennial approach, he is a firm believer in the vitality of Islamic tradition. Having based on this paradigm, he holds that the modern west has failed to bring about an improvement for mankind and t…
Even though the relationship of religion and modernity is a controversial issue, the phenomenon of religious activisms nowadays should receive special attention due to the fact that it shows the tendency of significant increase. On the basis of data collected by the writer, there are, at least, two types of spiritual ressurgence; first, spiritual ressurgence which develops outside the frame of …
Mengapa kita perlu melakukan penafsiran? Tentu saja karena kita tidak hidup dalam dari lingkungan yang tak berisi. lingkungan dimana manusia hidup memiliki tradisi dan tradisi terbentuk dari berbagai elemen yang saling berkait. Menafsir al Qur'an adalah salah satu proyek untuk menafsirkan tradisi. Masalahnya hanya apakah kerjapenafsiran itu bersifat konserfatif, reproduktif ataukah produktif. B…
Tulisan ini membahas krisis budaya dikalangan masyarakat barat modern. Dalam pandangan Syed Hossein Nasr krisis spiritual masyarakat barat disebabkan oleh pandangan rasionalisme, empirisme dan positivisme yang melebihi pandangan dogma-dogma agama. Krisis spritual yang dihadapi oleh masyarakat barat mengakibatkan kehampaan spritual, konsekwensinya dari problem ini menimbulkan kerapuhan budaya. s…
This article will explore the Seyyed Husein Nasr's thought on Islamic traditionalism to evercome modernism crisis. The main source of internal Islam [batiniyyah] is sufism. This dimension not only is sunni tardition but in shi'an ithna ashariyyah and isma'iliyah. Nasr claimed that tasawwuf cen be medicine to solve some problem and break off the internal ill. This is a true psychotherapy more th…
Tesis (M.A.)--IAIN Sumatera Utara, Medan, 1996.