Ismai’l Raji al Faruqi and Islamization of Disciplines

Abstract

Islamization of Knowledge is a process of developing or generating reconstructed human knowledge in conformity with the will of Allah (SWT). It is a process of critical appreciation against blind imitation. The aim of Islamization of Knowledge is to analyze and to formulate the western discipline in form that deals with revelation as source of knowledge. The Islamization is specially related to human sciences/disciplines only. As for the disciplines in what is known as Islamic studies, the aim is to critically analyze the Islamic legacy against their historical background and to make Islam relevant to contemporary times. This is known as „contextualization