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Article Name :
Discourses on the Relation of Science and Religion: An Islamic Paradigm of Education
Author Name :
ANIS MALIK THOHA??
Publisher :
Bridge Center
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Abstract :
It is an observable fact that modern education has brought forth magnificent advancements in human life but not without problems. Many scholars and practitioners of education have lamented the byproduct, if not the direct result, of the modern education. Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin of Harvard University terms this byproduct as ?crisis? in his The Crisis of Our Age (1941). Likewise, Rene Guenon in his Crisis of the Modern World (1942). Seyyed Hossein Nasr conceives it as ?plight? in his Islam and the Plight of Modern Man (1975). Whilst another Harvard scholar, Harry R. Lewis, former dean of Harvard College, in his Excellence without a Soul (2006), astonishingly questions the future of liberal education: ?Does liberal education have a future?? Hence, this paper attempts, firstly, to address the very issue of liberalism and secularism as the raison dêtre of modern education, which has ended up in the dichotomy of knowledge, i.e. scientific and dogmatic. Secondly, it shall highlight the discourses among the scholars on the relation of science and religion. And, finally, it shall discuss an Islamic paradigm of education proposed by Muslim scholars as an alternative solution.
Keywords :
epistemology, scientific truth, religious truth, integration, integralism, secular education, liberal education, Islamization of knowledge
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