Kalam Jadid, Islamization, and the worldview of Islam: applying the neo-Ghazalian, Attasian Vision

The new kalam (kalam jadid, or new dialectics) intellectual movement initiated by al-Ghazali and matured by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi succeeded in putting the Hellenizing philosophical and natural sciences firmly within the theological and epistemological ambit of tradition. This historical success provides pertinent lessons for Muslim scholars and intellectuals today to formulate what can be called kalam al-asr, or the Dialectics of the Age, in order to bring tradition to engage creatively and evaluatively with the challenge and allure of contemporary secularizing sciences. Keywords: al-'Attas; Dewesternization; Fakhr al-Din al-Razi; al-Ghazali; Islamization of present-day knowledge; kalam al-'asr; kalam jadid; Worldview of Islam.
Even as a discourse on religion, kalam obviously inclined, right from the start, to use forms of arguments some of which were clearly employed by ancient (and modern) philosophers; and [...]