AL-IKHSAN Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic

The Intellectual Transformation of Nurcholish Madjid

This study examines the intellectual evolution of Nurcholish Madjid (1939–2005) through a two-phase analytical framework: the early apologetic-ideological period (1968–1986) and the mature ethical-universal period (1990–2004). Set against the political constraints of Indonesia’s New Order and the Reformasi transition,...

From Orthodoxy to Radical Critique: An Epistemological Reading of Abdullah Al-Qasimi’s Religious Reason in Islamic Theology

This study aims to examine the transformation of Abdullah al-Qasimi’s religious reason by comparing the epistemic structures of his early, transitional, and late writings and identifying the continuities and changes underlying his intellectual trajectory. While previous studies have largely interpreted his shift from d...

Religious Tolerance and Harmony in the Context of Iqbal's Thought

Transhumanism and Posthumanity: A Philosophical Analysis of Ethical and Anthropological Boundaries

This article examines transhumanism as an intellectual and cultural movement aimed at overcoming human biological limitations through technology. It analyzes the term's evolution from mid-20th-century futurological concepts to contemporary philosophical discourse. Particular attention is paid to the concept of «posthum...

Confucianism and Chinese Philosophy through the Eyes of Western Scholarship

This paper critically examines the challenges and methodological problems in Western interpretations of Confucianism and Chinese philosophy in general. It argues that many such studies are shaped by unreflective Western epistemological assumptions, rooted in historically specific paradigms and power relations. To overc...

Ibn Khaldun and the Foundations of Classical Islamic Sociology: ‘Umrān, ‘Asabiyyah, Social Change, and Political Authority

The intellectual history of sociology has conventionally been narrated through the emergence of European social theory in the nineteenth century. Such a genealogy, however, risks obscuring earlier forms of systematic inquiry into society developed in other intellectual traditions. Among the most significant of these wa...