Towards an Islamic Discourse of Uncertainty and Doubt

Dahlén, A. (2002)

Article / Letter to editor

Contemporary Islam is witnessing the advent of new critical discourses from within its own modes of articulation. It confronts a new epistemic and interpretative situation, which is generally felt as something of an emergency. This emergency in epistemology and hermeneutics is largely the result of a radical shift of the categories of modern philosophy, science, culture and geography. Given the fact that the exploratory elaboration of law for centuries has been the dominant mode of self-expression in Islam, one of the key themes of contemporary Shici thought is the search for a legal identity. The current debate on the sharica (divine law) in Iran underscores the continued significance of this exploration. In the debate, the radical post-modernist cAbd al-Karim Surush contests the epistemic certainty of eternal knowledge, so common among modernists.

• Iran

• All authors: Dahlén, A.
• Date: 2002
• Journal: ISIM Newsletter
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22 - 22
• Publisher: ISIM, Leiden