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GROUP 1
• HUMA HAFEEZ
• HUMA ASLAM
• SUMAIRA
• KINZA
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY,ISLAMABAD
BEFORE ELABORATING POST MODERNSM ….LETS MAKE OUR SELVES AWARE OF MODERNISM ….WHICH FURTHER MODIFIED INTO POST MODERNISM ……..!!!
• Modern view or method, especially tendency in matters of religious belief to subordinate tradition to harmony with modern thought’. Modernism means the recent phase of world history marked by belief in science, planning, secularism and progress. It drives towards the industrialization and emphasized on materialism as a way of life.
Modernism
Post modernism
It is a general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.
• Postmodernism is "post" because it denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody - a characteristic of the so-called "modern" mind
PARADOX of POST MODERN POSITION
• As the philosopher Richard Tarnas states, postmodernism "cannot on its own principles ultimately justify itself any more than can the various metaphysical overviews against which the postmodern mind has defined itself."
CHARACTERIZ
ING
POST
MODERNISM
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• Presuppose a questioning of
• A loss of faith in religion
• The project of modernity,
• Spirit of pluralism,
Heightened skepticism of traditional
orthodoxies,
• Fully a rejection of a view of a world as
a universal totality
• Expectation of final solutions and
complete answers.
• Postmodernism coexists with
the age of
the media, in
many profound ways th
e
media are the centra
l dynamic, th
e
Zeitgeist, t
he defining feature, o
f
postmodernism.
`• The connection between postmodernism and ethno-religious revivalism- or fundamentalism-needs to be explored by social and political scientists.
• The continuity with the past, however apocalyptic the claims, remains a strong feature of postmodernism.
Continuity with past
• Metropolis
becomes
centra
l to postm
odernism
.
• There is a class element in postmodernism,
and democracy is a pre-condition for it to
flourish.
• Postmodernism allows, indeed
encourages, the juxtaposition of
discourses, an exuberant
eclecticism, the mixing of diverse
images.
• The idea of plain and simple
language sometimes appears to
elude the postmodernist masters
in spite of their claims to
accessibility.
Islam and Post
Modernism
MUSLIM ENTRY TO THE POST MODERNIST PHASE OF HISTORY
• Its origin was Europe …
• In spite of the strong influence of
postmodernism on the art,
architecture and literature of the
west postmodernism has to made
much of an importance on Muslims.
MUSLIM MODERISM
, Modernism provided important
weapons to Muslim leaders like
Jinnah, Iqbal and Sir Syed as they
used it against British to best
represent the interests of their
community; Muslims.
The modern period had led Muslims into a dead end…….
• Dictators• Coups• Corruption • Nepotism in politics • Low education standards • An intellectual paresis• The continuing oppression of women • The under-privileged • Grossly unequal distribution of wealth are some of its
characteristics.
ISLAMIZATION
• The Ramadan war in 1973, General
Zia’s “Islamization program”, the
start of Afghan Jihad, the Arab oil
ban Islamic activity was also noted
in countries far from the middle east
like Nigeria and Indonesia.
PERCEPTIONS OF THE WESTERN THREAT
MUSLIMS & WESTERN CULTURE DIFFERNCES ……
• West perceives Islam as the major next enemy after communism
• Patience, peace and equilibrium
are emphasized in Islam.
• But post modern age is based on
speed especially; the media
thrive on and intoxicated by
speed. Silences, withdrawal,
meditation, advocated by all the
religions are simply not
encouraged by the media.
Islam teaches …….!!
Western culture is…
MUSLIM DELEMMAS
• Islam is misunderstood by
people of west
• Islam is being portrayed as
religion of terrorist .
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• . Second most important problem for Muslim society is the negative stereotype image of a Muslim woman portrayed by media,
• Another dilemma which Muslims are facing
is for education which has taken them far
away from the steps of development.
MUSLIM ANGUISH
• Muslim killing a Muslim not for an Islamic cause but for political and economic reason
MUSLIM ANGUISH
• Nevertheless violence and cruelty are not in the spirit of the Quran, nor are they found in the life of the Prophet (S.A.W) not in the life’s of saintly Muslims.
Conclusion…..
CONCLUSION
• Many perplexing questions are emerging in the context of such situation that what can postmodernism mean for Muslims? When does it become distinct from modernism or is it essentially modernism is another shape? Is it yet another concept borrowed from the west to be applied or misapplied to Muslim society with the ideas like ”progress” , “rationality” and “secularism”? Can the application of a term fostered in the European literary tradition be valid in Africa and Asia?
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