Material theology and the alternative epistemology of Muhammad Abu al-Qasim Haj Hamad

Abstract

Europe ushered during Renaissance, its discoveries, technology and its inventions, and made extrapolation a method for it. It subjected nature to results that translate these scientific premises, rejecting after that any invocation of classical philosophies or metaphysical concepts that fought with force. As a result, it proceeded to dismantle them, so religion retreated and left the way open to science and its materialistic dialectic philosophy. Everything became for Caesar Mugla in the infinite universe. But the matter did not stop here. Man adhered to nature and challenged it that it robbed him and he became a follower of it, unable to find himself after filling the gaps of the unseen. Then soon he generalized this vision to the world through colonialism and civilizational domination, so it was necessary for some thinkers outside the European circle to re-read this frantic material scene, and this is what Abu Al-Qasim Haj Hamad did. Starting from the monotheistic epistemological alternative that rearranges the relationship between man, nature and the unseen, not out of conflict and opposition, but out of integration, knowledge and the Islamic Quranic vision that does not intend to exclude one party over the other nor alienate one of them to man.