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The Islamization of Knowledge traces its roots to the 1977 Makkah conference, [2] an influential event that initiated a dialogue among Islamic intellectuals regarding the role of Islam in shaping knowledge in the modern world. [3] Among these intellectuals, Isma'il Raji al-Faruqi played a pivotal role in formalizing and articulating the concept.
‘Ilm (Arabic: علم "knowledge") is the Arabic term for knowledge.In the Islamic context, 'ilm typically refers to religious knowledge. In the Quran, the term "ilm" signifies God's own knowledge, which encompasses both the manifest and hidden aspects of existence.
There is no tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Quran. [2] [3] The tree in the Quran is used as an example of a concept, idea, way of life or code of life. A good concept/idea is represented as a good tree and a bad idea/concept is represented as a bad tree. [4]
Seyyed Hossein Nasr stated that, while education does prepare humankind for happiness in this life, "its ultimate goal is the abode of permanence and all education points to the permanent world of eternity". [3] According to Islam, there are three elements that make up an Islamic education. These are the learner, knowledge, and means of ...
In Islam, special importance has been attached to the service and rights of parents. Respecting and obeying one's parents has been made a religious obligation, and ill-treatment to them is forbidden in Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic tradition. With regard to the rights of parents, the Quranic injunction is to behave well with them , to take ...
Islamization of Knowledge: General Principles and Work Plan is a book published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in 1981. The primary authors are Ismail al-Faruqi , who played a significant role in the initial edition, and Abdul Hamid AbuSulayman , who revised and expanded the work in later editions.
An issue for accepting scientific knowledge rises from the supposed origin: For Muslims, knowledge comes from God, not from human definition of forms of knowledge. An example of this in the Islamic world is that of modern physics, which is considered to be Western instead of an international study. Islamic values claim that "knowledge of ...
That is why so many verses of the Quran equate those who go astray with those who cannot use their intellect (as in the verses wa la ya‘qilun, ‘they do not understand’ or literally ‘use their intellect’—the verb ya‘qilun deriving from the root ‘aqala which is related to ‘aql; or the verse la yafqahun, ‘they understand not ...