The Global Project of the Professor Taha Jabir Al-Alwani: Enriching and Reviewing the Islamic Experience in International Relations

Abstract

This paper tracks the scholarly formation of a scholar, whose writings have renewed the civilizational studies on global and humanitarian level sthrough universal unification, humanitarian recommendation, psychological reconstruction. The impact of this intellectual renewal in international relations is assessed in this study. The first part evaluates the Islamic experience in international relations by rendering values and globalism inherent international relations concepts. In this context, the study considers the book of Al-Diyar Jurisprudence interpretation and its impact on classifying people in terms of their beliefs. It reviews the impact of these beliefs on the “human unity”. It also underscores the reconsideration of the earth as a single home for a single family and how people need to be classified based on coexistence. This is followed by a considerationoftheHolyQuranasourceofjudgements,where renewal has reinstated the Holy Book in terms of content, rationale of revelation, an address to all people and a source of their values and as a globalism shaper. The second section offers a critique of western civilization, its knowledge pattern and the call for a globalized western civilization model.The third section considers the nature of post-Cold War characteristics, including, the impact of the internet revolution on the closeness among world communities and the justification for a global residence; the cultural impact of these developments, and the influence of cross-national factors in international relations such as religious movements.
 Keywords: International Political Development, Global value matrix, globalism, succession on earth, human rights, Foreign Relations, globalization