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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.
English: The book is dedicated to non-Muslims who desire to know Islam in brief and look forward to know its most important teachings. We hope the book will also be useful for Muslims as well as the newly converted.
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.
The growth of science and knowledge in the Islamic world and other communities has created the need to gather collections containing information regarding the current knowledge as well as the definitions and jargon used in that particular field of knowledge. This need has moved some scholars to author various series of books in those fields“ [5]
‘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.
The website welcomes questions from everyone, Muslims and otherwise, about Islamic, psychological and social matters. [9] The site's vision is to be "an encyclopaedia about Islam". [9] Its aims (as described on the website) are: #To spread Islam and call people to it. To spread Islamic knowledge and dispel ignorance among Muslims.
Sunni view that those firmly rooted in knowledge are the body of Muslim Jurists (Arabic: Ulema) who interpret the Divine Law (Arabic: sharia), deriving the Islamic Jurisprudence (Arabic: Fiqh). Ulema is the plural of Alim, Arabic for knowledgeable. This connects to the Arabic for knowledge, ilm, the last word of this term: "al-rasikhuna fi 'l-'ilm"
Quran Aur Ilm-e-Jadeed presents a comparative study of Quran and the modern sciences for both conformities and contradictions. The book contains discussions on six modern theories in the light of Quran: the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin, theory of Instinct by William McDougall, the theory of Unconscious mind by Sigmund Freud, the theory Love of Superiority by Alfred W. Adler, Socialism ...