Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”

This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story “Fī Sanah Milyūn” by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scien...

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Main Authors: Yulia Nasrul Latifi, Mohammad Muslih
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Language:Arabic
Published: Istanbul University Press 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/7FC8ACB9B04B481A92BCDA58C81B4770
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description This paper studied the Egyptian modern short story “Fī Sanah Milyūn” by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life.The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.
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spelling doaj-art-8a46ada6463b493dbf38e9b57f1b92bb2025-08-20T03:53:18ZaraIstanbul University PressDarulfunun Ilahiyat2651-50832023-06-0134125728210.26650/di.2023.34.1.1249910123456Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”Yulia Nasrul Latifi0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1836-7452Mohammad Muslih1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8890-5215Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, IndonesiaUniversity of Darussalam Gontor, Jawa-Timur, IndonesiaThis paper studied the Egyptian modern short story “Fī Sanah Milyūn” by Taufīq al-Ḥakīm. The story tells us about the advancement of science and technology which was at its peak in 1000 CE, when people were made immortal. Then, they abandoned metaphysics. The radical Subject that destroyed the scientism structure then appeared by giving up his life.The question to be answered in this paper is: how did the Subject destroy tyrannical scientism and why? The analysis revealed that scientism deprived humanity of human beings and it was necessary for the radical Subject to destroy it. Through his scientific findings, the radical Subject created a transcendental paradigm of science as his criticism of positivistic scientism. The Subject built a fantasy about the eternity of God and the mortality of human beings as the replacement for scientism that had thrown God away from the picture and made human beings immortal. The movement of the author is a movement of an empty and split Subject. To seek fulfillment, the Subject kept moving to approximate The Real, namely a scientific order that had a transcendental-religious paradigm containing ordered values and honored the humanity of human beings.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/7FC8ACB9B04B481A92BCDA58C81B4770criticism of scientismrelation between science and religionarabic literaturetaufīq al-ḥakīmžižek’s subjectivity
spellingShingle Yulia Nasrul Latifi
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Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
Darulfunun Ilahiyat
criticism of scientism
relation between science and religion
arabic literature
taufīq al-ḥakīm
žižek’s subjectivity
title Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
title_full Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
title_fullStr Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
title_full_unstemmed Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
title_short Religious Criticism of Scientism: The Subjectivity of Taufīq al-Ḥakīm in the Short Story “Fī Sanah Milyūn”
title_sort religious criticism of scientism the subjectivity of taufiq al hakim in the short story fi sanah milyun
topic criticism of scientism
relation between science and religion
arabic literature
taufīq al-ḥakīm
žižek’s subjectivity
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