Alfred and Ali’s Difficult Conversation. Muslim Responses to Evolution in Contemporary Malaysia

Authors

  • Stefano Bigliardi Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2026.27.8970

Keywords:

Islam and science , Islam and evolution , Malaysia, Osman Bakar, Naqib Al-Attas, Ibrahim Elshahat, Radzi Sapiee, creationism

Abstract

The essay critiques four books published in Malaysia that tackle Islam and evolution: Osman Bakar’s edited volume Critique of Evolutionary Theory (1987), Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas’s On Justice and the Nature of Man (2015), Ibrahim Elshahat’s Adam. Between Evolution, Theistic Evolution & Revelation (2022), and Radzi Sapiee’s Ādam (a.s.) and the Origin of Man (2024). It is shown that the discussion of evolution offered by these authors suffers from  major flaws.

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Published

2026-05-06

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Vol. 27 No. 1 (2026):

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Alfred and Ali’s Difficult Conversation. Muslim Responses to Evolution in Contemporary Malaysia. (2026). Marburg Journal of Religion, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.17192/mjr.2026.27.8970