Turnitin: Circularity of Knowledge: A Model of Integration Between Science and Religion

This study is an effort to outline the integration of science and religion in Islamic worldview. The Islamic worldview is divided into three existences: The God (mawjūd al-Khāliq); empirical reality (mawjūd fī al-khārij); and the mental processes (mawjūd fī al-adhhān). In the world of mental processes, human knowledge is seen cumulatively advanced for the truth. Based on the historicity and dialectic of understanding, this study focused on the condition of plurality of knowledge. We found maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah as the knowledge speaking of the purpose of the nature creation (al-qaṣd al-khalq al-takwīnī). It was discovered that this maqāṣid is at the meta-level for the Islamic religious group of knowledge. Maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah becomes meta-tafsir and circulates with meta-sociology and meta-science. It completes the knowledge in the three relationships of human: the relation with God; the relation between humans; and the relation with nature. Knowledge in the world of mental processes fulfills the missing part based on the concept of the three Islamic worlds. Besides, the knowledge in these three worlds is circularly integrated and where it began is unknown. Thus, the circularity of knowledge is a promising integration model.