The Mutazilite "rationalist" theologian Al-Jahiz absolutely picking apart the (proto) secularists of his age. | 🧵
During a phase where secular disciplines of power and culture were being adopted by rulers on the advice of imperial scribes (advisors) who themselves were
During a phase where secular disciplines of power and culture were being adopted by rulers on the advice of imperial scribes (advisors) who themselves were
much more influenced by extra-islamic models of socio-governance (sassanian/byzantine) - Al-Jahiz took a firm stand for traditional islamic values. Criticising vehemently the worldly cultures, the secular elites of his time were trying to sneak into the islamic civilisation.
Its surprising how well the problems this mutazilite thinker identifies with the "secular-intellectuals" of his time, fit also to the pseudo intellectuals of our age. Showing how the western inspired secular elites of today are nothing original, such attitudes have always existed
Al-Jahiz meticulously identifies the arrogant superiority complex of the secular elite against the ulema - they looked down upon anything linked to religion, assuming their own thoughts & ideals to be intellectually rich and seeing islamic ones as "the dogmatic fables of the old"
He believed that these so-called extra-islamic philosophers carried an aversion to the piety of islam that restricted the luxurious lifestyles and models of inspiration they admired - but hid their slavery to their lowly desires under the guise of "philosophical sophistication".
'They just read a few popular books, learn some catchy terminologies, and maintain a certain rhetoric and consider themselves to be from the intellectual elite"
Not sure if Al-Jahiz is criticising a pseudo-intellectual of his age or a certain someone in 2024.
Not sure if Al-Jahiz is criticising a pseudo-intellectual of his age or a certain someone in 2024.
Once again, it's ironic how the "rationalist theologians" that the secular thinkers of our times appeal to and praise (without knowing anything about them), had already religiously attacked their ideas and beliefs while defending the ideas and beliefs the secularists attack.
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