Syed naquib al-attas biography of william

  • Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas was born in Bogor, West Java.
  • This paper aims to reflect on al-Attas' conception of human creation.
  • Among the Muslim scholars present was Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas.

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    Note: This post was earlier published as an appendix to the post, Link –  The Primacy of “Existence” over “Essence” : A Foundational Principle of Christian “Existential” Philosophy.

    Our exposition of Aquinas’ thesis on the primacy of existence over essence provides a corrective to Malaysia’s premier philosopher, Naquib al-Attas, who claims that Aquinas’ misguided notion of distinction between existence and essence led to the development of nominalism (or Ockhamism) which denies the ontological reality of universals and asserts that universals are merely names (nomina) or sammanfattning concepts. This denial results not only in doubts about the existence of objects but also the existence of God and ultimately gives birth to Western secularism. Naquib writes,

    Since a distinction was made between necessary being and contingent being, and with reference to the creatures their being necessary is in thought and not in actuality, a real distinction was thus made between essence

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      Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas on Human Origin

      Authors

      • Fiqih Risallah RZS-CASIS Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
      • Tatiana Denisova Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

      DOI:

      https://doi.org/10.21111/tsaqafah.v15i2.3382

      Keywords:

      al-Attas, Human Being, Human Origin, Missing Link, Prophet Adam

      Abstract

      AbstractThis paper aims to reflect on al-Attas’ conception of human creation. It argues that human creation model in Islamic perspective differs from evolutionary and positivist model. The issue centers upon a question as to when Adam was initially present on earth. Al-Attas asserts that human knowledge of his origin is limited in such a way that only through revelation it is truly revealed. Divine information is crucial without which knowledge of his origin would be a matter of purely speculative presumption. By employing a tawḥîd approach, al-Attas managed to establish the time frame of Adam first appearance with a view to clarifying that his arrival along with h
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