Al-Qur’an dan Integrasi Keilmuan

Abstrak

This paper is written to analyze how to integrate science and religion. Islamic religious knowledge is knowledge based on revelation, the hadith of the Prophet, and the ijtihad of the scholars. Meanwhile, science (general knowledge) is knowledge based on human reasoning derived from empirical data through research. Both have their respective domains, separate from one another, whether in terms of formal-material objects, research methods, criteria for truth, and the roles they play. This is the pattern of 'dichotomy of knowledge' that still exists in the thinking of many Muslims today. Many Muslims still view that science and religion stand in their respective positions, as the field of science relies on empirical data, while religion relies on dogma, which is unseen and does not need to be based on empirical data, but rather on 'faith' or belief. Some Muslim scholars who have debated the integration of knowledge or the Islamization of knowledge include: Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi, Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Fazlur Rahman, and Ziauddin Sardar. The emergence of the idea of 'Islamization of knowledge' is inseparable from the disparities that are a direct result of the separation between science and religion.