scholarly journals The Islamization of Knowledge

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Taha J. Al ‘Alwani
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Temporal Constraints ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Science Texts ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social

IntroductionWithin the Islamization of Knowledge school, the idea of the Islamizationof Knowledge has always been understood as an intellectual andmethodological outlook rather than as an academic field, a specialization,an ideology, or a new sect. Thus, the school has sought to view issues ofknowledge and methodology from the perspectives of reform, inquiry, andself-discovery without any preconceptions, doctrinal or temporal constraints,or limitations on its intellectual horizons. The school is keenlyaware of the workings of time on ideas as they pass from stage to stage andmature and is therefore the first to say that the Islamization of Knowledgeis not to be understood as a set of axioms, a rigid ideology, or a religiousmovement. Rather, in order to comprehend the full meaning of the term, itmust be viewed as designating a methodology for dealing with knowledgeand its sources or as an intellectual outlook in its beginning stages.An ongoing critique and the attempt to derive particulars from the generalare essential to the process of development. The initial articulation ofthe Islamization of Knowledge undertaking and the workplan was thereforeproduced in general terms. At that early stage, the focus was on presentinga criticism of both traditional Muslim and western methodologies and thenintroducing the Islamization of Knowledge and explaining its significance.The first edition of the Islamization of Knowledge pointed out the principlesessential to any attempt to fashion an Islamic paradigm of knowledgebased on the. Islamic worldview and its unique constitutive concepts andfactors. It also addressed, briefly, the intellectual aspect of the Islamizationof Knowledge. The main focus, however, was on the practical aspects ofproducing textbooks for use in teaching the social sciences, as this was consideredthe first priority at a time when the Muslim world was losing its bestminds to the West and the western cultural and intellectual invasion.Accordingly, twelve steps were identified as the basis from which thepreparation of introductory social science texts might proceed ...

The excavation of walls and roads at the Erlitou Site in Yanshi City, Henan in 2012–2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-127
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Phase Ii ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Road Surface ◽  
Phase Iii ◽  
Rammed Earth ◽  
The West ◽  
The Social ◽  
Rammed Earth Wall ◽  
Phase Iv

AbstractFrom November 2012 to May 2013, the Erlitou Archaeological Team of the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of the Social Sciences found a roughly north-south orientated rammed-earth wall (Q7) and hard-trodden road surface parallel to the wall in the vicinity of the workshop zone of the Erlitou Site. The wall was most likely erected during Erlitou Phase II and continued to be in use until the early stage of Phase IV. The trodden roads took form during Phase II and ended in Phase III or early stage of Phase IV. Together with the previous findings, the excavators postulated two competing propositions on the rammed-earth wall in question. It was the west wall of the walled workshop zone or it was the east wall of a walled enclosure has yet to be discovered to its west. The roads were auxiliary facilities of the walled zone when it was in use.

The Emergence of Political Science in Communist Countries

1970 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 572-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Powell ◽  
Paul Shoup
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
The West ◽  
East European ◽  
Free Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Independent Inquiry

The scientific study of politics requires an environment which accepts free inquiry and discussion. Scholars must be permitted to ask questions of their own choosing, gather data without hindrance, and communicate freely with one another about their findings. To be sure, freedom to investigate sensitive policy matters is limited by all governments. Moreover, political scientists themselves inevitably introduce some measure of their own values or ideological predispositions into their works. But it is obvious that without the guarantee of certain minimum freedoms, political science as we know it in the West could never exist.Communist regimes traditionally have made independent inquiry or objective discussion of political phenomena impossible. In the Stalinist period, scholarly analyses of politics—or, for that matter, of aesthetic, literary, moral or economic questions—amounted to little more than doctrinal exegesis or the elaboration of practical measures to implement the Party's demands. An autonomous social science in Stalin's Russia or Eastern Europe was simply unthinkable.Since the dictator's death, however, Communist governments have modified their hostility toward the social sciences in general, and toward political science in particular. A decade of de-Stalinization has been accompanied by steps to encourage the scientific study of politics. In several East European countries, political science now enjoys recognition as a discipline in its own right.This does not mean that political science in Communist countries has freed itself of political controls, or that what is presented as political science is always of scholarly merit.

History and Social Science in the West

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Passmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
External Force ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The West ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Academic History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter analyzes the relationship between history and various disciplines within the social sciences. Historians and social scientists shared two related sets of assumptions. The first supposition was of a world-historical shift from a traditional, hierarchical, religious society to a modern egalitarian, rational one. Second, history and social science assumed that progress occurred within nations possessed of unique ‘characters’, and that patriotism provided the social cement without which society could not function. Nevertheless, academic history seemingly differed from social science in that it was untheoretical and predominantly political. Yet historians focused on the nation’s attainment of self-consciousness, homogeneity, and independence through struggle against internal and external enemies—a history in which great men were prominent. Historians and sociologists unwittingly shared versions of grand theory, in which change was an external ‘force’ driven by the functional needs of the system, and in which meaning derived from measurement against theory, rather than from protagonists’ actions and beliefs.

College Males' Academic Field and Attitudes toward Women

1977 ◽  
Vol 40 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1089-1090
Author(s):  
James A. Doyle ◽  
Robert Shahade
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
College Students ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Attitudes Toward Women ◽  
College Males ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
The Social ◽  
Science Group ◽  
Students Attitudes

This study investigated the relation between college males in the Social Sciences or Business Administration and their attitudes toward women's roles. Two groups each containing 40 junior or senior majors were given Spence and Helmreich's Attitudes Toward Women Scale. The Social Science group was significantly more liberal in their attitudes. Further research is suggested on college students' attitudes and their choice of study.

Space, power, and prestige in the academic field

Focaal ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (53) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Artyom Kosmarski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Anthropology Of Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
The Social

This article investigates Russia's relationship with the West in the 1990s and 2000s by analyzing changes in a specific segment of the contemporary global economy—the academic sphere. It traces how the social sciences and the humanities in Russia have evolved from relative insularity and hierarchy during the Soviet era to a more complex web of multiple local institutions, setting their own rules, alongside powerful international agents. Assuming that individual trajectories can make objective spatial structures visible, the article analyzes the biographies of three young Russian scholars, collected in 2004 and 2005 during a research project in the anthropology of science. Patterns of academic migration and intellectual exchange with the West are presented here as providing clues to the spatial structure of the Russian scientific field and its place in the global academic economy. The article concludes with a discussion whether these findings may be generalized to other spheres, and applied not only to Russia but to other post-Soviet states caught in-between the First and the Third Worlds.

scholarly journals Conference on Knowledge across Cultures

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-132
Author(s):  
Ebtihaj Al-A'ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
The Social

This conference was organized by the Ontario Institute for Studies inEducation (OISE), Toronto, Canada. Approximately 166 participants,representing various disciplines and different countries, attended theeight plenary and twenty concurrent sessions. Its purpose was to bringtogether Eastern and Western knowledge through culture via an exchangeof ideas and deliberations, an exposition of theories, and an examinationof the contributions of various cultures-mainly China's-to humancivilization.The papers presented and the discussions that ensued were extremelyenlightening and concentrated on the following issues: a) the contributionsmade to knowledge by specific cultures (mainly Chinese, Indian,and Muslim); b) knowledge transferreed from the West to the East doesnot consider the attributes of the East; c) the East is responsible forfinding ways to adapting its cultures to imported knowledge; and d) socialscience knowledge is better generated when social science researchersabandon natural science methodologies (i.e., realism and positivism) andrecognize that the social sciences should be based on qualitative research.There were a few papers on the above-mentioned themes that wereoutstanding. Abdul Rahman, in his "Spheres of Life: Inheritance, Creativity,and Society," emphasized the holistic nature of knowledge. Thisknowledge does not underestimate or neglect the contributions of differentcountries (races) in developing the present (current) civilization.Abdul Rahman indicated that the lack of a holistic view of knowlege atpresent has also led knowledge to be fragmented ...

scholarly journals PRIBUMISASI ILMU-ILMU SOSIAL DAN PEMBARUAN PEMBELAJARAN IPS TERPADU DI SEKOLAH

JIPSINDO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-85
Author(s):  
Sudrajat Sudrajat ◽  
Nugraheni Catur Puntaswari ◽  
Yunike Sulistyosari ◽  
Dwi Sri Astuti
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Western World ◽  
The West ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
New Thinking

Ilmu sosial di negara berkembang (salah satunya Indonesia) masih mengguna-kan paradigma ilmu sosial di Barat (Eropa) sehingga dalam beberapa kasus menjadi tidak relevan ketika digunakan untuk memecahkan masalah sosial. Penelitian menggunakan metode kajian pustaka yaitu sebuah pencarian kebenaran secara otoritatif melalui pendapat dan kajian ahli yang dituliskan dalam buku dan referensi. Hasil kajian menemukan bahwa perkembangan ilmu sosial di Indonesia memang tidak dapat dilepaskan dari dunia Barat. Pribumisasi merupakan wacana untuk menumbuhkan pemikiran baru dalam ilmu-ilmu sosial di Indonesia agar lebih kontekstual. Beberapa tokoh menawarkan teori sosial alternatif yang mengkedepankan pribumisasi ilmu sosial yaitu: Kuntowoyo, Sartono Kartodirjo, Mubyarto, Purwa Santoso, dan Zamroni. Upaya pribumisasi harus ditindaklanjuti dengan mengajarkan ilmu sosial alternatif dalam berbagai jenjang pendidikan. Pembaruan IPS Terpadu dengan pembelajaran alternatif menjadi upaya yang efektif untuk membumikan ilmu sosial yang khas Indonesia.INDIGENIZATION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND RENEWING OF INTEGRATED SOCIAL SCIENCES LEARNING Social science in developing countries (one of which is Indonesia) still uses the social science paradigm in the West (Europe) so that in some cases it becomes irrelevant when it is used to solve social problems. The research used the literature review method, which is an authoritative search for truth through expert opinions and studies written in books and references. The results of the study found that the development of social science in Indonesia cannot be separated from the Western world. Privatization is a discourse to foster new thinking in the social sciences in Indonesia to make it more contextual. Several figures offered alternative social theories that prioritized the indigenization of social science, namely: Kuntowoyo, Sartono Kartodirjo, Mubyarto, Purwa Santoso, and Zamroni. Indigenousization efforts must be followed up by teaching alternative social sciences at various levels of education. Integrated IPS reform with alternative learning is an effective effort to ground social science that is unique to Indonesia.

“We Speak the Truth!”

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-80
Author(s):  
Sari Hanafi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Academic Qualifications

This study investigates the preachers and their Friday sermons in Lebanon, raising the following questions: What are the profiles of preachers in Lebanon and their academic qualifications? What are the topics evoked in their sermons? In instances where they diagnosis and analyze the political and the social, what kind of arguments are used to persuade their audiences? What kind of contact do they have with the social sciences? It draws on forty-two semi-structured interviews with preachers and content analysis of 210 preachers’ Friday sermons, all conducted between 2012 and 2015 among Sunni and Shia mosques. Drawing from Max Weber’s typology, the analysis of Friday sermons shows that most of the preachers represent both the saint and the traditional, but rarely the scholar. While they are dealing extensively with political and social phenomena, rarely do they have knowledge of social science

Approach to the Social Sciences in Religion Past and Present

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Robert Segal
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Social

The social sciences do threaten theology/religious studies even when they do not challenge either the reality of God or the reality of belief in the reality of God. The entries in RPP ignore this threat in the name of some wished-for harmony. The entries neither recognize nor refute the challenge of social science to theology/religious studies. They do, then, stand antithetically both to those whom I call "religionists" and to many theologians, for whom there is nothing but a challenge.

Diplomasi Versi Minangkabau

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-144
Author(s):  
Muhammad Yunis
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Pragmatic Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Observation

Pasambahan a Minangkabau society how to speak, the speech full of philosophy which delivery indirectly. This turned out to be complicated understood by some people who did not understand the pasambahan. In the present study, the authors sought to express the values of the philosophy contained in pasambahan as how to speak the traditional Minang community. As time goes, these traditions are disappearing from everyday society, for it needs a way to preserve it back. Pariaman is one area that has always practiced this tradition. In this study, the authors attempted to peel pasambahan text in a manner which according to the author deconstruction approach is one approach that is very controversial in the social sciences today. The process of data analysis by using some theories of social science (eclectic). Among the pragmatic theory and semiotics. The method used in the form of qualitative observation, the authors go directly spaciousness and interact with competent informants. From the discussion, the authors found ten diplomatic elementscontained in tradition and pasamabahan text. These elements in them, '' opener, apology, positioning/element of certainty, stringsattached, request (permission), receipt, delivery destination, contracts/agreements/agreements, offers, and resolver ''.

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