Hasan Hanafi Thoughts and Abed Al Jabiri (Philosophy 12)

Hasan Hanafi Thougth:

As in his book which has been published by the Occidental Occadians; Our Attitude Towards Western Traditions which in its original title Muqadimah Fi Ilm Al Istighrab. In the work he invited his readers to wage jihad against the west, precisely to do theology for the sake of liberation. When viewed from the theoretical-philosophical interpreter, the character of Hasan Hanafi's left revolutionary thought. As someone who has a strong sense of reality, Hasan Hanafi has a very empirical or down to earth view.

As a reformer Muslim he was a cultural bearer who was critical of Islam and a thinker of Islamic civilization. Cultural strategies as a conscious effort by humans to transcend difficulties, obstacles, and even contemporary and contemporary issues. Hasan Hanafi has such great concern about the real problems of Muslims, such as injustice, oppression, colonialism. This thinking is in line with his friend Ali Syariati, one of the same Iranian ideologists studying at the Sorbone. Hasan

Abed Al Jabiri thought:

Religious issue that appearing in Arab society and how they give attention to their tradition or Turts has making them overly glorify the glories of the part and become retarded in the face of modernity. So the Issue has motivated Al-Jabiri to offered his idea. He pin down critically from what we call or reputed by "reference" and "how to refer to".

Abed al-Jabiri is one of Muslim philosopher and become one of the leading Islamic Arab thinker about tradition relevance in the modern era. He describe that today what we need is combination between "critical of the past era" in order to avoid from history manipulation and "critical today" in order to disappear the identity confirmation and the apology within confront every west concept or idea. Therefore, to find out more his epistemology concept about Islam thought also his thought implication for Islam, this paper examine al-Jabiri thought by critical analysis with library research method.

The result of this paper make the point that in reviewing and critiquing a tradition, Al-Jabiri use of "historicity" (tarikhiyyah), "objectivity" (madlu'iyyah), and "continuity" (istimrariyah) to approach the tradition or Turts. The approach of "Historicity" and "objectivity" itself are both in the sense of separation between the reader and the reading object (fasl al-qari' 'an al-maqru), while the "continuity" means connecting the reader to the reading object (washl al-qari 'an al-maqru).