The adagium al muhafadhah 'ala al qadim al salih wa al akhdz bi al jadid al aslah is relevant to waht we called it turas and tajdid in Hassan Hanafi's thought. Hanafi, as other contemporery Islamic thinkers, finds out that the problem of perserving Islamic tradition in one hand and continuing the dinamics of Islamic movement in another is the trus challange of Islamic discourse today. The tradi…