Toward Bridging Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Modern Sciences in Institution of Higher Learning: A Preliminary Study
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revealed knowledge, bridging, religion and modern science, higher learningAbstract
The process of bridging the Islamic revealed knowledge and modern sciences by proper educational method is a very important aspect in higher learning institution. In Islam, the idea of harmony and unity of religion and science is very much cherished. The harmony between religion and science is a major characteristic of Islamic civilization which develops and generates the human knowledge. In Islamic civilization, science was born in the cradle of religion. More precisely, it was born in the cradle of monotheism – belief in the one true God – or what Muslims traditionally love to call al-tawhid, which literally means unity. Islamic science grew and developed to become the most creative and the most advanced in the world for centuries until the seventeenth century, thanks to its nourishment by the teachings of monotheism or al-tawhid, which is at the heart of religion. This paper will focus on the religious sciences of the revealed knowledge which gives birth to the scientific spirit in its most comprehensive sense as we know it today. The origin and development of the scientific spirit in Islam differs from that in the West. Therefore, this article is trying to give the answers from the Institution of higher learning approach which caters introduction, the Concept of bridging of knowledge, science and Islamic revealed knowledge: rational approach, bridging between Islamic revealed knowledge and modern science, classical science in the Muslim world, arrival of modern science in the Muslim world and conclusion.
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