Prominent X (formerly Twitter) user, Islamicize (@islamicize) wrote a fantastic endorsement of Ali Harfouch’s book, “Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy,” saying it is
“The Most comprehensive blueprint I’ve seen for an ideologically grounded and politically resolute action plan for Muslims is laid out by @asharfouch in his book, “Against the World: Towards an Islamic Liberation Philosophy.” Harfouch’s solution to the ummah’s crisis rests on reclaiming tawḥīd as the axis of liberation, a truth that does not merely exist in the abstract but dismantles the idols of self, capital, and state that dominate modern life. For him, tawḥīd is both a cosmic orientation and a political rallying point, grounding the ummah in an order that cannot be reduced to Western secular forms. By affirming God’s Oneness, Muslims also negate the legitimacy of worldly sovereignties that seek to rule in His place. This re-centering allows the ummah to rediscover its alterity, its radical difference from the hegemonic world order, and to stand once again as a community shaped not by dependency or mimicry but by divine sovereignty. In this light, being “against the world” is not nihilism, but a positive refusal to accept the world’s false idols as ultimate, and a turning toward a horizon defined by God alone.
From this orientation, Harfouch calls for a tajdīd, a renewal of consciousness that can birth what he names a second Islamic insurrection. This insurrection is not simply political rebellion, but a civilizational uprising rooted in spiritual self-affirmation. It means reviving an ummah that does not see itself as a derivative of the modern state system but as a witness to a higher sovereignty, one that envisions society, economy, and politics through the light of tawḥīd. In this way, the ummah’s liberation is not just survival within the cracks of the global order but the construction of an entirely different horizon, a future that begins with rejecting imposed idols and affirming the transcendent unity that Islam has always offered.”
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