Islamic Epistemology and the Solution of the Education Crisis

Abstract

The paper starts by summarizing basic concepts and paradigms of Islamic epistemology and methodology of research. It then discusses the current crisis of knowledge and education in the ummat whose resolution will be by Islamization of sciences. Islamization of sciences is defined as identifying biases in research methodology that reflect a non-tauhidi parochial world-view. This is followed by Islamization of the disciplines of knowledge which is reformulating basic epistemological concepts and paradigms of various disciplines from an Islamic tauhidi paradigm characterized by objectivity, istiqamat al ma’arifat, and universality, ‘aalamiyyat al ma’arifat, of knowledge