Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic Methodology seeks to construct an intellectual framework for an Islamic methodology with a view to realizing practical training in the thoughtful investigation of issues related to knowledge in various fields. The book describes distinctive types of integration that characterize Islamic methodology, including integration of sources, means, and schools of thought, as well as existing realities with desired ideals. This approach is fully consistent with human nature, as variety is fundamental to the functions people perform and skills they can master. The work essentially makes the case that fundamental to any Muslim intellectual and moral recovery is laying the foundations of sound thinking and values and developing practical means by which to bring the fruits of that knowledge, goals or ideas into a working arena. Epistemology and Methodology, as governed by Tawhid, lie at the heart of this theory in order to renew the intellectual vitality, energy and spiritual understanding of Muslim thought and achievement, to function as the motivating force of a once vigorous Islamic civilization in a modern context.
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Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic Methodology
Dr. Fathi Hasan Malkawi is a Jordanian Educator and university professor. He has a Ph.D. in Science Education and the Philosophy of Science, from Michigan State University, America. He also holds a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and a Bachelor of Science in chemistry and geology. He served in the public education sector as a teacher and educational supervisor, and participated in the development of curricula and authored many school textbooks from 1966 to 1978. Dr. Malkawi then worked in university education from 1984-1996. He is a visiting professor in more than 20 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe and America. He wrote and co-authored 25 books on school and university education in the subjects of science and research methods. His publications are: `Epistemological Integration: Essentials of an Islamic Methodology’; `The System of the Highest Governing Values: Monotheism, Purification, and Urbanism’, `Cognitive Structure: concept, levels and maps’. Presently Dr. Malkawi is the Regional Director of the International Institute of Islamic Thought, and the Editor in Chief of “Islamiyat al-Ma’rifah” (Journal of Contemporary Islamic Thought), and a member of the Jordan Academy of Arabic.