Al-Jabri's Critique of the Arab-Islamic Mind: A New Reinterpretation in the Context of Religious Education

Abstract

This study aims to reinterpret Jabri's structural analysis of Islamic tradition in the context of Religious Education. In Jabri's theory of Arab-Islamic reason, knowledge is regarding as a tool for the power to transform the sphere. So, he reached to three different orders of knowledge that don't communicate with each other in the crack opened by power while reaching its interests: explication (bayan), intuitive knowledge ('irfan) and demonstration (burhan) and; to policy shaped by religion but soon returned to its unconscious conditions; and to moral conceptions that settled in the gap between knowledge orders and politics. When the problem is taken into consideration in the context of Religious Education, it is noticed that this whole multitude finds its unity in the religiosity of a single historical figure (Person) in its historical conditions. Bayan is the order of knowledge of objective religiosity, 'irfan is the order of knowledge of subjective religiosity.