Fragility of Islamicate Critique
The inherent fragility with the whole tradition of Islamicate critique of modernity from Guenon onwards, finding its fullest expression in the normative Sunnism of al-Attas is that if were to fully realise their projects on their own terms we would be doomed to extinction. This is not to say they are wrong, mistaken - far from it. They are inherently fragile projects because if you take their projects seriously on their own terms with sympathetic good-faith engagement and try to scale it up, I don't see how you escape becoming Luddite fodder.
This fragility - where success, victory of Islamicate critiques end up cannibalizing the entire project is a recurrent theme and motif not just in these philosophically sophisticated critiques but also the Ikhwanist projects too
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