ISLAMISASI PENGETAHUAN[1]: SUATU PENGANTAR

[1] Pengatahuan (Knowledge) tidak dapat didefinisikan secara verbal, it can be defined only through disjunction and example. A Knowledge is the process of knowing and identical with the knower and the known, or it is an attribute enabling the knower to know. Lihat, Franz Rosenthal, Knowledge Triumphant The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam, (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970), hlm. 48 dan 52. In Islam, Knowledge is acquired through the channels of true narrative, sound senses, sound reason and intuition, dikutip dari, M. Aslam M. Haneef, “Islam, The Islamic Worldview, and Islamic Economics, IIUM Journal of Economics and Management 5, no. 1. (1997): 48. Menurut Syed Naquib al-Attas, ada dua bentuk pengetahuan: The First kind of knowledge is given by God through revelation. The Second kind of knowledge refers to knowledge of the sciences (ulum), and is acquired through experience and observation and research, it is discursive and deductive and it refers to objects of pragmatical value, dalam, Islam and Secularism, (Kuala Lumpur: ISTAC, 1993) hlm. 146. Sedangkan, definisi science menurut Achmad Baiquni adalah: “himpunan pengetahuan manusia tentang alam yang disimpulkan secara rasional dari hasil-hasil analisis kritis terhadap data-data pengukuran yang diperoleh melalui observasi pada fenomena-fenomena alam”. Lihat Achmad Baiquni, “Filsafat, Fisika, dan al-Qur’an”, dalam Jurnal Ulumul Qur’an., Nomor 4 Vol .II, 1990, hlm. 4-12