World in Perspective

Rethinking History What Keith  Jenkins does in his book titled " Rethinking History" initially look into What is history by looking into theory and then examining it in practice  and finally put theory and practice into a definition - methodologically informed definition. Jenkins makes two points at the level of theory that is History is one of a series of discourses about the world. These discourses does not create the world (physical realm that we live) but they do appropriate it and gave it all the meaning it has.  History as a discourse is thus in a different category to that which it discourse about, that is, the past and history are different things. He points out that History and Past are not stitched into each other, rather history and past float free of each other, they are ages and miles apart.  Such a discursive practices in different subjects interprets different interpretation over time and spaces. historians construct analytical and meth...

THE HISTORIAN AND HIS FACTS The fundamental question that E.H.Carr arises in his fascinating book is the  title itself, that is What is History? As a first answer to this question, in his first chapter titled " The Historians and His Facts" He argues that history is a continues process of Interaction between the historians and his facts, an unending dialogue between the present and past. He points out various  approach in doing history, like When Ranke  in the 1830s, in legitimate protest against moralising history, remarked the task of the  historians was simply to show it really was. Later, the positivist anxious to stake out heir claim for history as a science, contributed the weight of their influence to this cult of facts. As the approach in positivism was to collect your facts and then draw a conclusion from those facts. Carr points out that, this view of history fitted in perfectly with the empiricist tradition which was dominant strain in Bri...

Since the middle of the nineteenth century, Muslims have been deeply concerned with the idea of modernity and it place inIslamic thought.  The term 'Modernity' was itself to Muslims and their thought and is taken from English or French through translation. Some Pertinent Questions that Mr. Faisal Devji Asks in the initial Part of this Essay are: 🔺was this language of modernity wholly or Partially Foreign ? 🔺Was it a sign of Christian or European Dominance?  🔺Was there anything neutral, Universal or Islamic about the modern?  In a way, it is this kind of characterised questions which have shaped Modernity and Islam to define in a form of relationship which resulted in the question of accepting, rejecting, or compromising  with modernity. 🔺The argument that Faisal Devji put forth in this article is " The dictated character of this debate, However, made the emergence of a systmatic modernism  in control of its own terms of ar...

There are seminal writing of syed hussian alatas. He mainly writes on the indigenous approaches in social sciences, corruption, religion and East Asia, He was a public intellectual in Malaysia