Counter-discourse of Islamic epistemology in the non-formal madrasahs in Malaysia
This paper aims to describe the nature of contemporary discourses on Islamic Epistemology. Islamic epistemology has gone through a reconstruction through the process of development of modern education system. While many contemporary Muslim scholars had tried to recover the "true" epistem...
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| Language: | English |
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Future Academy
2018
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/65912/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/65912/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/65912/1/2018%20Epistemology%20of%20Madrasah%20AIMC.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper aims to describe the nature of contemporary discourses on Islamic Epistemology. Islamic
epistemology has gone through a reconstruction through the process of development of modern education
system. While many contemporary Muslim scholars had tried to recover the "true" epistemology in Islam,
the personal epistemology among the ordinal Muslims has rarely been discussed empirically. This study
aims to fill the gap by identifying the nature of the contemporary Muslim’s epistemology through an
analysis of counter-discourse based on the dimensions of personal epistemology. A series of field research
was conducted in two non-formal Islamic schools (madrasahs) in Kuala Lumpur and Terengganu between
2010 and 2016. The nature of epistemology in the madrasah can be explained in comparison with the four
dimensions: (1) peers, not only the teachers, are important “source of knowledge” ( Schommer, 1990) (2)
but that is true only when people also have a trust in the traditional authority. Learning should take a long
time as opposed to the belief in (3)"quick learning” ( Schommer & Dunnell, 1994) and in relation to the
dimension of (4) “certainty of knowledge” (M. Schommer, 1990), knowledge is static but it should be
reached through a process of construction of meaning. It is also found that in addition to the four dimensions,
a dimension of (5) learning as a process of moral development should be considered to analyze the nature
of Muslim discourse of epistemology. |
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