Abstract This article reviews Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas’s The Mysticism of Ḥamzah Fanṣūrī as a tribute to his scholarly legacy following his recent passing. It situates the work within al-Attas’s broader intellectual project of recovering the depth and coherence of the Malay-Islamic intellectual tradition. The review examines the book’s central argument that Ḥamzah Fanṣūrī should be...
In the present article, the author explores the possibility of religious experience from the perspective of Islamic theology. The article seeks to unearth the seeds of religious subjectivism in Islam based on a theoretical framework grounded in the modern concept of religious experience. The practical aim of this undertaking is to escape the pitfalls of religious traditionalism on the one hand,...