Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)

Muslim Understanding of Pragmatism and Its Application in Malaysia: A Critical Study

Authors
Sakinah Munarwarrah binti Hashim1, *
1Universiti Kuala Lumpur Business School (UniKL Business School), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
*Corresponding author. Email: sakinah@unikl.edu.my
Corresponding Author
Sakinah Munarwarrah binti Hashim
Available Online 26 December 2022.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-61-9_8How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Pragmatism; Islamic Perspective; Muslim life
Abstract

This concept paper discusses the ideology of pragmatism. Globalization has exceptionally played an important role in every area of human life, especially in the cultural and religious dimensions. Apart from that, globalization is increasingly affecting Muslims’ life. Along with this, pragmatism, one of the modern ideologies, is also affecting Muslims’ life. Pragmatism has become one of the important issues nowadays. Some people practice it in their daily life without knowing the suitability of this ideology from an Islamic perspective. The rapid progress of media and technology has changed the lifestyle of people to become more modern across the world, including Malaysia. The changing of the lifestyle has led Muslim people to be influenced by the pragmatism ideology. Therefore, we need to analyze what kind of pragmatism that is suitable for Muslim from Islamic Perspective and Muslim scholar’s point of view. A set of in-depth interview questions was instrumented for collecting data from the respondents on their thought and application of pragmatism in Malaysia. The result of this study revealed most of respondents claim there are some aspects of pragmatism that can be applied by Muslim because for them Islam stands for pragmatic decisions. It is suggested that there is a need to understand better the actual practice of pragmatism before get influenced.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Communication, Language, Education and Social Sciences (CLESS 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 December 2022
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-61-9_8
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-61-9_8How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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