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Kamal al-Din al-Nabhani (January 3, 1929 – December 31, 2006) was one of the founders of the Islamist political party Hizb ut-Tahrir and was the son of Sheikh Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani.

Early life

Kamal al-Din al-Nabhani was born on January 3, 1929, in Beirut, Lebanon.

Thought

Philosophy and theology

In his books 'Thought' and 'System of Islam 2' (based on the work of his father Taqiuddin al-Nabhani), Nabhani placed heavy emphasis on discussing modes and models of the psychology behind human thought and its concepts. He defined the thought process and how it reaches the status of conviction or concepts. He discussed the internal working of thoughts, convictions, and concepts in shaping the Nafs (emotions and sentiments). Also, explained how people reach conclusions and the psychology behind the process. This process derives itself from Taqiuddin al-Nabhani's roots in non-Ascetic legalistic Sufism from his first teacher and maternal grandfather Ismail al-Nabhani.

Al-Nabhani's definitions of thought have been used in the study of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and information processing research discussed in the Addison-Wesley published book "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine (Systems Programming Series)" and used in London South Bank University's information systems department.

After many philosophical discussions on the nature of thoughts and emotions, Nabhani concludes that the only way to bring about change is through discussion, refutation, and revival of the relevant thoughts and emotions. It is from this philosophical basis that he argued that force does not work to change peoples' ideas. He also argued that a decline in Muslims' mental, emotional and conceptual lives led to the decline of Muslim culture and the eventual destruction of the Caliphate. He believed the first major step in the decline of Muslim culture was confusion about and conflict with new foreign ideas, mainly Greek, Persian & eastern philosophy.

He argued that the Islamic world did not know how to tackle and contextualize these ideas because they became insular and complacent instead of preserving Islamic thought and philosophy and keeping it relevant to a world in flux. The heavy emphasis on pinpointing, defining and changing peoples thoughts, convictions^[1], or emotions via stronger thoughts, diagnosis, and refutation of the process an individual uses to reach their particular 'incorrect' view, is the method of Hizb ut-Tahrir's argumentation on almost every issue.

Faith vs. rational belief

Nabhani claimed that Islam is founded on rational belief and not blind faith, being very similar to Ghazali's Kalam Argument. However, both Nabhani and Ghazali argued that after Aqeeda (belief) is established, divine laws in the Quran are beyond question due to the 'mind' of God being beyond human comprehension. Nabhani loosely affirmed rationalism (not that of the Mu'tazili), but argued that it can establish belief in a God just like Ghazali and Ghazali's teacher al-Juwayni in his book^[2], contrary to the common western notion of rationalism. He tried to outline materialist arguments and axioms to prove that one unlimited creator of the universe, God (Allah) can be proven by rational deduction. He believed that the dependency of, and limited physical nature of every tangible thing within human perception point ultimately to an unlimited creator that is beyond need and dependency, an Absolute Infinite.

Books

Saving Palestine - 1950^[3]
The Message of the Arabs - 1950
The System for Society - 1950
The Ruling System in Islam - 1953
The Economic System In Islam - 1953
The Social System in Islam -1953
The Party Structure -1953
The Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1953
The Islamic State - 1953
The Islamic Personality (in three volumes) - 1960
Political Concepts of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1969
Political View of Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1972
Introduction to the Constitution or the Reasons That Make it Obligatory - 1963
The Khilafah - 1967
Presence of Mind - 1976
A Burning Call to the Muslims from Hizb ut-Tahrir - 1965
Thinking - 1973
The Jurisprudence of Prayer

References

^ "Conviction", Wikipedia, 2020-02-08, retrieved 2020-04-26
^ "Al-Juwayni", Wikipedia, 2020-02-17, retrieved 2020-04-26
^ Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin al-Nabhani Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Hizb ut-Tahrir.

"بزوغ نور من المسجد الأقصى: انطلاقة مسيرة حزب التحرير". Al-Waie Magazine (in Arabic) (234–235). August–September 2006. Archived from the original on 2015-02-09.
"An-Nabhani: Palestinian Intellectual". Islamic Da'wah Foundation Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2010-12-19.
Watt, Montgomery (2004), The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali (Translation of al-Munqid min al-Dalal), Oxford: OneWorld Publications
Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2002), The System of Islam Nidham al-Islam, London: al-Khilafah Publications
Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2004), Thought al-Tafkeer, London: al-Khilafah Publications
Nabhani, Taqi al-Din (2005), Islamic Personality al-Shaksiyyah al-Islamiyyah, London: al-Khilafah Publications

[1] "Conviction", Wikipedia, 2020-02-08, retrieved 2020-04-26

[2] "Al-Juwayni", Wikipedia, 2020-02-17, retrieved 2020-04-26

[3] Sheikh Muhammad Taqiuddin al-Nabhani Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine, Hizb ut-Tahrir.

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 == Thought ==
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-this was an hard working person he is really smart. @YUVID23
+In his books 'Thought' and 'System of Islam 2' (based on the work of his father Taqiuddin al-Nabhani), Nabhani placed heavy emphasis on discussing modes and models of the psychology behind human thought and its concepts. He defined the thought process and how it reaches the status of conviction or concepts. He discussed the internal working of thoughts, convictions, and concepts in shaping the Nafs (emotions and sentiments). Also, explained how people reach conclusions and the psychology behind the process. This process derives itself from Taqiuddin al-Nabhani's roots in non-Ascetic legalistic Sufism from his first teacher and maternal grandfather Ismail al-Nabhani.
+Al-Nabhani's definitions of thought have been used in the study of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, and information processing research discussed in the Addison-Wesley published book "Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine (Systems Programming Series)" and used in [https://www.lsbu.ac.uk London South Bank University]'s information systems department.
+After many philosophical discussions on the nature of thoughts and emotions, Nabhani concludes that the only way to bring about change is through discussion, refutation, and revival of the relevant thoughts and emotions. It is from this philosophical basis that he argued that force does not work to change peoples' ideas. He also argued that a decline in Muslims' mental, emotional and conceptual lives led to the decline of Muslim culture and the eventual destruction of the Caliphate. He believed the first major step in the decline of Muslim culture was confusion about and conflict with new foreign ideas, mainly Greek, Persian & eastern philosophy.
+He argued that the Islamic world did not know how to tackle and contextualize these ideas because they became insular and complacent instead of preserving Islamic thought and philosophy and keeping it relevant to a world in flux. The heavy emphasis on pinpointing, defining and changing peoples thoughts, convictions<ref>{{Citation|title=Conviction|date=2020-02-08|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conviction&oldid=939735990|work=Wikipedia|language=en|access-date=2020-04-26}}</ref>, or emotions via stronger thoughts, diagnosis, and refutation of the process an individual uses to reach their particular 'incorrect' view, is the method of Hizb ut-Tahrir's argumentation on almost every issue.
 ===Faith vs. rational belief===