Islamization of Knowledge

Islamic science, as an active creative agent, once imparted life and motionto Islamic civilization and society. It is now confined within the walls ofold schools and imprisoned among its classical books. Having embraced thenew sciences and accepted Western behavioral modes of thinking, the Muslimintelligentsia has made Islam into an abstract spirit fossilized inside traditionalforms of ancient mores, customs, rites, and rituals. This situation alone pmidesenough justification to reconstruct the methodology of Islamic sciences, butthe on-going Islamization movement makes such an attempt even morepertinent. “To recast knowledge as Islam relates to it, is to Islamize it. . . .To this end, the methodological categories of Islam . . . must replace theWestern categories and determine the perception of ordering reality.”lThis article is an attempt to contribute to reconstructing the methodologyof social sciences with specific reference to political science. This isaccomplished by identifying and exposing, through systematic contrast withIslamic principles, the weaknesses of elements and key concepts molded inthe crucible of Western culture and civilization. This is essential becauseIslamization warrants, ipso facto, liberating people from the world-view ofthe West so that they can strive toward that state of perfection reached inMadinah under Divine guidance during the age of the last Prophet (SAAS)of Islam

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• Islamic Perspectives on Theory Building in the Social Sciences

  Open Access•Ibrahim A Ragab•American Journal of Islamic…•1993

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