Qurʾan-Based Epistemology As an Epistemic Infrastructure for the Islamic Humanities

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Department of Logic of Understanding Religion, Research Institute for Wisdom and Religious Studies, Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought, Qom, Iran.

Abstract

Trying to form Islamic humanities requires explaining the epistemological model (paradigm) that governs that scientific environment. The paradigms are based on ontological, epistemological, methodological, anthropological, and value-based foundations. The problem addressed in this paper is how to achieve a conceptual model from the perspective of the Qur'an in epistemology. For this, the data-grounded method has been used, and the result of the research can be stated as follows: The central signifier of “science and knowledge” and its related matters in the view adapted from the Qur'an is "network-based knowledge." The purpose of "network-based knowledge" is to try to discover the existential situation (relationships and effects) and the function of a phenomenon in the coherent network of the entire universe, which is based on a self-based reality (infinite existence), and this conformity is considered as the criterion of truth. This discovery is made by using the combination of the senses with the intellect (logical arguments including demonstration, induction, intuition, etc.) in the minimum epistemic ascension and by using the intuition of the heart (existential unity with the phenomenon) in moving towards the maximum epistemic ascent (awareness of the network of existence). The opposites of “knowledge and cognition” in the Qur'an (such as forgetfulness, ignorance, foolishness, negligence, doubt, suspicion, greed, hope, conjecture, accusation,) also have the same criterion, which is “ignoring the relationship” of phenomena with the network of existence and with the ultimate level of the hierarchy of existence.

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