The Pantheistic Reading of Islam Conflating the Normative Islamic with the Historical Muslimanic
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This article addresses the blurred boundaries between the normative Islam as a value reference and Muslims in history, who are relative beings in place and time that interact with the normative source of Islam. However, this confusion is not only occasionally observed in Western scholarship, but it is also discernable in traditional Muslimanic literature. Therefore, it is necessary to establish the criteria by which we can distinguish between the actions of Muslims in history and the normative values of Islam that can be considered purely Islamic. So defining normative Islam and its source is an essential point of departure in order to avoid any epistemological obfuscation, namely, the pantheistic approach that equates transcendental Islam, which represents the absolute “What Ought”, with relative history. However, I would recommend the use of the term Muslimanic as a solution to this terminological and cognitive perplexity.
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