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Bustamam Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman

 
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Synopsis

What if knowledge is not something we produce but something we receive?

In The Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Reclaiming the Divine Breath in Science, Consciousness, and Human Becoming, Prof. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad presents a bold and original rethinking of knowledge itself. Challenging the foundations of modern academia, this book argues that the crisis of contemporary education is not merely methodological—but deeply ontological, epistemological, and spiritual.

Drawing from Islamic intellectual traditions, Sufi epistemology, and critical engagement with Western philosophy, this work introduces the Fricative Knowledge Paradigm—a new framework in which knowledge is understood as divine breath (nafkh ilāhiyyah): not constructed, but received; not possessed, but participated in.

Against the backdrop of technocratic universities, fragmented disciplines, and spiritually empty learning systems, this book offers a radical alternative:

  • Knowledge as illumination, not information
  • Education as transformation, not credentialing
  • The university as a spiritual-intellectual sanctuary, not a production machine

Through eleven deeply reflective chapters, the author develops a comprehensive architecture of knowledge—from metaphysical foundations to curriculum design, from the science of the heart ('ʿilm al-qalb) to the reconstruction of academic disciplines.

This is not merely a critique. It is a paradigm shift.

A work of rare depth and originality, this book speaks to scholars, educators, and seekers who sense that something essential has been lost in modern knowledge—and are ready to reclaim it.

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