Integration Of Science And Islam On Education Dynamic: A Comparative Study Of Al-Attas And Kuntowijoyo Thought

Abstract

The integration of science is an important discourse that still coincides with the Islamic renewal movement that seeks to reunite the knowledge of the world and the afterlife. This is due to the emergence of scientific dichotomy and specialization that led to a separation between religion and general science. This was marked by the efforts made by ancient Islamic universities such as Al-Azhar, which tried to include various courses and departments related to world affairs on its main campus. This scientific integration began to develop into established theories in forming an integrative paradigm of Islamic thought. For example, the theory initiated by Ismail Al-Faruqi which was expanded by Syed Naquib Al-Attas regarding the Islamization of science. In his thought, Al-Attas realizes the importance of Islamization of western science that will be consumed by students in Islamic schools. So he believes that the best process to answer this issue is by implementing a movement to Islamize science. On the other hand, Kuntowijoyo believes that it is not the Islamization of science that is done to integrate Islam and science. On the contrary, there needs to be an Islamic scientification movement that builds a reverse paradigm of the theory of Islamization of science. So that scientific integration runs naturally without a barrier. Seeing the above, the researcher tries to conduct a qualitative approach research with a literature study aimed at directing researchers to carry out a comparison of two developing thoughts of science integration.