The Limitations of Science and the Teachings of Science from the Islamic Perspective

What is Science? In Latin "Scientia" means "knowledge." So science is defined as all the knowledge men have achieved in different places and at all times, arranged according to their subject-matter. This includes knowledge gained through Divine revelation; or by the way of human...

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Autor principal: Zaghloul R. El Nejjar
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9ad3f0ad27c8469abb5d91e286c2e7de2021-12-02T19:40:08ZThe Limitations of Science and the Teachings of Science from the Islamic Perspective10.35632/ajis.v3i1.29032690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/9ad3f0ad27c8469abb5d91e286c2e7de1986-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2903https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 What is Science? In Latin "Scientia" means "knowledge." So science is defined as all the knowledge men have achieved in different places and at all times, arranged according to their subject-matter. This includes knowledge gained through Divine revelation; or by the way of human thinking and creative intellect, as well as through human legacy and tradition in these two areas. The prevailing direction, however, tends to limit the term Science to natural and experimental studies of all that is within reach of the senses and intellect in this universe (i.e. matter, energy, living beings and natural phenomena). This is usually carried out through observation and conclusion or through experimentation, observation and conclusion, in an attempt to discover the characteristics of matter, energy and living things, classify all these and discover the laws governing them. As thus defined, Science also includes deductions, suppositions, hypotheses and theories which are put forward to explain prevailing phenomena. This definition has limited Science to "a branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less collated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain." Accodingly, human knowledge has been divided into scientific studies (both pure and applied), literary and art studies and religious studies (studies of faith). Writers, however, differ much in classifying and chaptering human knowledge, but the following classification seems appropriate: ... Zaghloul R. El NejjarInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 3, Iss 1 (1986)
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The Limitations of Science and the Teachings of Science from the Islamic Perspective
description What is Science? In Latin "Scientia" means "knowledge." So science is defined as all the knowledge men have achieved in different places and at all times, arranged according to their subject-matter. This includes knowledge gained through Divine revelation; or by the way of human thinking and creative intellect, as well as through human legacy and tradition in these two areas. The prevailing direction, however, tends to limit the term Science to natural and experimental studies of all that is within reach of the senses and intellect in this universe (i.e. matter, energy, living beings and natural phenomena). This is usually carried out through observation and conclusion or through experimentation, observation and conclusion, in an attempt to discover the characteristics of matter, energy and living things, classify all these and discover the laws governing them. As thus defined, Science also includes deductions, suppositions, hypotheses and theories which are put forward to explain prevailing phenomena. This definition has limited Science to "a branch of study which is concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified and more or less collated by being brought under general laws, and which includes trustworthy methods for the discovery of new truth within its own domain." Accodingly, human knowledge has been divided into scientific studies (both pure and applied), literary and art studies and religious studies (studies of faith). Writers, however, differ much in classifying and chaptering human knowledge, but the following classification seems appropriate: ...
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