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ajiss-2373	al 'Alwani, Taha J.	Missing Dimensions in Contemporary Islamic Movements	1995.0	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5875	242	47	He classified Islamic civilization into Arab, Turkish, and Malay (ignoring Persian, Indian, and other Islamic civilizational areas) and divided west­ ern civilization into European and American. Because contemporary Islamic movements fail to effect change through an Islamic epistemological methodology, they a) resort to the violence of infidelization, b) cling to the letter of the early Islamic historical expe­ rience, c) defer to the metaphysical while neglecting the teachings of Islam related to interaction among the divine, humanity, and the universe, and d) seek to gain power in order to introduce change (by legislating sovereignty to God) through their own curatorship or that of a jurispru~ dent, while trying to appease Him by a cosmetic implementation of the Shari'ah, the penal code, and the ~udud.	cache/ajiss-2373.pdf	txt/ajiss-2373.txt