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Hasan al-Asmari

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Hasan ibn Muhammad Hasan al-Asmari (حسن بن محمد حسن الأسمري) is a contemporary scholar of Islamic creed and contemporary thought, best known for his critical study al-Nazariyat al-Ilmiyya al-Haditha: Masiratuha al-Fikriyya wa-Uslub al-Fikr al-Taghribi al-Arabi fi al-Taamul Maaha (Modern Scientific Theories: Their Intellectual Trajectory and the Arab Westernizing Approach in Dealing with Them) .

Thought and Academic Contributions

Al-Asmari's scholarly work focuses on examining the ideological and philosophical background of modern scientific theories from the perspective of Islamic creed (aqida) . His research traces how modern scientific frameworks arose in the West within a historical context of intense conflict between scientific inquiry and church authority, which ultimately fostered secular approaches separating religion from science and led some thinkers to advocate atheism in the name of science .

In his analysis of contemporary Arab intellectual discourse, al-Asmari categorizes the responses to modern scientific theories into three main currents, maintaining that there is no inherent conflict between Islam and sound scientific knowledge . He critiques Westernizing and modernist trends—including figures influenced by Muhammad Abduh—for yielding to the pressure of scientific hypotheses by reinterpreting or discarding established religious texts and doctrines to align with shifting theories, as well as misapplying empirical scientific methodologies to the domain of religious belief . To counter these intellectual challenges and prevent uncritical assimilation among educated Muslims, al-Asmari advocates for the systematic Islamic grounding (al-taʾsil al-Islami) of modern disciplines and knowledge systems .

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