Remaining Devout Muslims in Affectionate Citizenship: A Possible Modus Vivendi

Alkatiri, Wardah (2019) Remaining Devout Muslims in Affectionate Citizenship: A Possible Modus Vivendi. WaikatoIslamic Studies Review, 5 (1). pp. 38-47. ISSN 2463-2686

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Abstract

The response of the New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern to the Christchurch massacre at two mosques has lighted a flickering flame of hope for diversity and coexistence. The proposed article is a furtherance of my paper presented in the University of Waikato Islamic Studies Conference on Islam and its Relations with Others, on November 11-12, 2015: ‘A Matter of Faith, a Matter of Meaning. The Need of Epistemological Pluralism’. The paper is published in International Journal of the Asian Philosophical Association (Alkatiri 2016b). In that article, I argue that in order for the dialogue between Islam and the West possible, there is a need of concrete recognition of the legitimacy of different ‘systems of representation’ between that of the religious Muslims and that of the non-religious modern West. Further to the aforesaid, in this proposed article, I am going to articulate a number of issues required to be addressed for the needs of religious Muslims to coexist in multicultural citizenship. In the main, a caveat against the superimposing character of nationalism ideology as it insists to replace the ontological, epistemological, and axiological positions of religion in the citizen’s minds and hearts needs to be recognized. The article proposes, instead, to leave the notion of nationhood in the ‘heart’ domain only. That is the domain of ‘affection’, rather than making it an all-encompassing point of reference to define the ‘true-false’ (epistemological); ‘real-unreal’ (ontological); ‘good-bad’ (axiological) quality of all things for the citizens as the modern nation-state concept requires. That being the case, the Muslims can remain to be religious and at the same time, maintaining affectionate citizenship within the society at large.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery > Program Study of Nursing Magister
Depositing User:	Mr. . Aji
Date Deposited:	24 Aug 2020 03:02
Last Modified:	24 Aug 2020 03:02
URI:	http://repository.unusa.ac.id/id/eprint/6234

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