Since the early twentieth century, Muslim reformers have been
campaigning for a total transformation of the ways in which Islam
is imagined in the Malay world. One of the most influential is the
author Haji Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah, commonly known as
Hamka. In Hamka and Islam, Khairudin Aljunied employs the term
"cosmopolitan reform" to describe Hamka's attempt to harmonize the
many streams of Islamic and Western thought while posing solutions
to the various challenges facing Muslims. Among the major themes
Aljunied explores are reason and revelation, moderation and
extremism, social justice, the state of women in society, and
Sufism in the modern age, as well as the importance of history in
reforming the minds of modern Muslims.Aljunied argues that Hamka
demonstrated intellectual openness and inclusiveness toward a whole
range of thoughts and philosophies to develop his own vocabulary of
reform, attesting to Hamka's unique ability to function as a
conduit for competing Islamic and secular groups. Hamka and Islam
pushes the boundaries of the expanding literature on Muslim
reformism and reformist thinkers by grounding its analysis within
the Malay experience and by using the concept of cosmopolitan
reform in a new context.
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