Nurturing Islamic Peace Discourse

As the Muslim movements gain momentum around the Muslim world,so does the need for a discourse that would make a religious traditionrelevant to the conditions of modernity. Unless Muslims are consciousof the conditions and challenges of modernity and its historical and contemporarytrajectory, they cannot succeed in their emancipation fromtheir oppressors. A new discourse must be produced by those hluslimswho can look at the conditions of their times critically, in their pursuitof justice. Such a movement will produce a new epistemic basis for thenew Muslim society, which still may be a mass society. The thought ofimportant scholars, Khalis M. Jalabi and Jawadat Sai’d, is discussed astwo examples of Islamic peace discourse.