Name: What is Islamic apologetics?
Uploaded: 2020-07-08T18:34:20.000Z
Channel: Dr. Hatem al-Haj
Description: What is Islamic Apologetics? What does the term “apologetics” mean?

<p>What is Islamic Apologetics? What does the term &#x201C;apologetics&#x201D; mean?</p>

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The theoretical framework and principles used to derive rulings from the primary sources of Islam. It involves the study of legal theory, textual interpretation, and the rules of deduction.

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Basic Lessons from Islamic Apologetics

 I want you first to understand that apologetics is not about apology.  It is not about apologizing on behalf of God or on behalf of Islam.  This is not what the word means.  Apologetics basically means systematic argumentative discourse in defense of a doctrine.  It is the systematic argumentative discourse in defense of a doctrine or a practice.  It just comes from the word apologia in Greek.  Probably I'm mispronouncing it.  But it comes from the word apologia in Greek and was first introduced by, in this sense,  systematic argumentative discourse in defense of a doctrine by Plato in his writings about  Socrates' apologia, where Socrates basically put together a defense of his doctrines, of  his teaching, his positions to basically answer the charges or category of the prosecutors.  So the word apologetics does not mean that we are apologizing.  God does not need our apology on his behalf.  Islam does not need apologies on his behalf.  It just means that we are putting together this sort of systematic defense of our doctrines  and practices.

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