Investigating The Science Islamization From The Perspective Of Sayed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Abstract

Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas is one of the theoreticians of the idea of knowledge Islamization in the second half of the twentieth century. The present study tries reporting and evaluating the process of the Islamic science’s actualization from the perspective of Attas. In his mind, the actualization of the Islamic science does not solely mean edification and completion of the western sciences rather it includes two stages of the western science’s edification and completion and science production based on the Islamic bases and methodology.

In his idea, the Islamic science’s actualization methodology incorporates the use of a combined (exegetic, intuitive, intellectual and empirical) method, language’s Islamization and application of the methods of interpretation and rendering in the study of the natural and human phenomena. From the perspective of this research, though Attas’s Islamic science pattern seeks Islamization in the level of the science’s basics and methodology hence it is clean of many of the problems posited by the critics, it has a lot of ambiguous points. The flaws of his methodology are the vagueness and non-transparency of his use of the combined method, over-reliance on the role of language’s Islamization for the actualization of the Islamic science and the rendering method’s suitableness for the philosophical and theosophical discussions and its lack of enough efficiency for the production of scientific cognizance.