2025-12-23
Muhammet Caner Ilgaroglu
Modern industrial practices and consumer-driven economies have disrupted the balance between humanity and nature, undermining the harmony that once characterised their interdependence. This anthropocentric worldview has generated profound ecological imbalances and accelerated the dynamics of climate change. Considering the severe implications of this crisis of humankind, raising awareness and aligning consumption with ecological parameters has become an urgent prerequisite for a sustainable future. Within this context, the insights of Islamic philosophers—particularly on nature, humanity, and economic ethics—remain highly relevant. This study employs content analysis to three major works of Islamic moral philosophy—Ibn Miskawayh’s Tahdhīb al-Akhlāq, Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī, and Kınalızāde ʿAlī’s Akhlāq-i ʿAlāʾī—to examine how Islamic virtue ethics can inform and reshape individual and collective attitudes toward the climate emergency. The findings demonstrate that Islamic moral philosophy offers vital guidance for harmonising environmental behaviour with ethical values, demonstrating that this integration can meaningfully address the global climate crisis. Rooted in the core virtues of justice ( ʿadl ), contentment ( qanāʿah ), and compassion ( raḥmah ), it provides a strong ethical foundation for sustainable environmental practice. Integrating these virtues into contemporary climate strategies can enhance community engagement and strengthen broader efforts to mitigate the climate crisis.
2025-12-23
Nyayu Soraya, Alimron, Maryamah
This study examines the cultural potential of Ulu manuscripts in Bengkulu Province, with particular emphasis on the relationship between the Ulu writing tradition and the oral tradition in Bengkulu City. Employing codicological, palaeographical, and textual analyses, the research documents manuscripts inscribed on bamboo, bark, and paper, encompassing a wide range of contents, including customary law, prayers, medicinal knowledge, oral poetry, and genealogical narratives. These materials reflect not only the intellectual and cultural richness of the local community but also the dynamic interaction between orality and literacy. The findings indicate that Ulu manuscripts functioned as repositories of knowledge, instruments of ritual and religious practice, and markers of cultural identity. Oral tradition animated and sustained the texts, while the manuscripts preserved and institutionalised oral knowledge, demonstrating a continuous interplay between spoken and written culture. Nevertheless, the preservation of these manuscripts faces significant challenges, including material deterioration, inadequate cataloguing, and limited public awareness. As a preliminary investigation, this study underscores the scholarly importance of Ulu manuscripts within the context of Malay–Islamic heritage and calls for further interdisciplinary research, systematic digitisation, and their integration into broader studies of Islamic civilisation and regional identity.
2025-12-23
Jamal Ahmed Bashier Badi
This study addresses a significant scholarly gap concerning a lack of a comprehensive framework for systematically examining the connotative dimensions of fundamental Qurʾānic terms related to thinking ( tafakkur , taʿaqqul , tadabbur , tafaqquh ) and knowledge ( ʿilm , maʿrifah ). While the presence and importance of these terms in Qurʾān are widely acknowledged, existing scholarship has tended to prioritise their denotative or literal meanings, often focusing on a restricted subset of these terms, particularly those associated with Qurʾānic epistemological discussions. As a result, insufficient attention has been given to the contextual and connotative significance of these terms and to how their deeper semantic layers articulate the Qurʾān’s holistic worldview of thinking and knowledge. Consequently, this study proposes an innovative connotative analytical framework that categorises Qurʾānic thinking terms into four distinct semantic dimensions. It employs a qualitative method of textual analysis, drawing upon classical and contemporary Qurʾānic tafsīr literature, alongside studies on Qur’anic terminology ( muṣṭalaḥāt Qurʾāniyyah ), as its primary sources of data. The study demonstrates that a connotative and contextual interpretation of these terms reveals the dynamic, multi-layered, and holistic system of thought that characterises the Qurʾānic approach to human cognition and epistemology. Overall, it provides a comprehensive overview of these terms as foundational building blocks of an Islamic holistic epistemological framework of thinking and knowledge.