Abstract
Kamal Hassan, fondly known as Prof. Kamal is a symbolic academician in a well-versed personality of virtue, adab (good manners), and hikmah (wisdom). He has been accredited as one of the intellectual leaders of Madarasah al-Wasatiyah or movement of moderation and ideologue of Islamization of knowledge in the contemporary Malay world. He is also one of the leading figures in the area of contemporary Islamic thought and Malay civilization. His literature is vocal on the issue of Islam and modernity, Wasatiyah or Islamic moderation, Islamicization of human knowledge, Integrated Islamic education, secularism and secular education, the relationship between East and West, human rights and civil society. His metaphysical views have been often quoted in the literature of Muslim intellectuals and activists in Southeast Asia. Moreover, his philosophical thought of a justly balanced approach of Wasatiyah is also worth mention. The noteworthy highlights in his literature and speech promote Muslim leaders and scholars to examine: what collective moral responsibility they have, as a moderate nation or Ummah Wasat, to build a better world and a better nation—Khaira Ummah. There were many reasons for the intellectual decline of Muslims and the Muslim world. One of the reasons by moving away from the moderate and comprehensive understanding of the Qur’an. There is undoubtedly an urgent need to retract the philosophy of Ummah Wasat based on divine knowledge rooted in humanistic and societal life. Hence, Kamal Hassan fetched the thoughts in his lectures, articles, and books to relevantize the philosophy of moderation in Islam.
 Keywords: Wasatiyah, Moderation, Justly Balanced Path, Islamization of Knowledge, Kamal Hassan and Malay World.
Highlights
Kamal Hassan, fondly known as Prof. Spiritual guru to his apostles who learned the academic knowledge, and the virtue, adab, and hikmah. His good manner and wisdom were preceded by his knowledge, so his knowledge turns into the symbol of a good manner and Archives of Business Research (ABR)
Born in 1942, Mohammad Kamal Hassan has been regarded as one of the intellectual leaders of the Islamicisation of Human Knowledge and exponents of Madarasah al-Wasatiyah or Wasatiyah movement in the contemporary Malay world (The Malay world geographically refers to Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Sothern Thailand, and Singapore)
As he is one of the leading figures in the area of contemporary Islamic thought and Malay civilisation, his ideas on the issue of Islam and modernity, Islamicisation of human knowledge, integrated Islamic education, Wasatiyah or Islamic moderation, secularism and secular education, relationship between the East and the West, human rights and civil society have been often quoted by Islamic scholars, Muslim intellectuals and activists, especially in the Southeast Asia
Summary
He delivered many lectures and wrote articles and books on various topics generally relevant to the Philosophy of Ethics, Islamicisation of Human Knowledge, Integrated Education, Hadharah Wasatiyah and justly balanced approach of Islam mainly for the Muslim community and non-Muslim audience in the Malay world. Kamal Hassan, as an independent and non-partisan Muslim Malay academic, feels obligated to spread the true, credible meaning of Wasatiyah found in the Qur’an.
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