Islamic Sciences explores, from Islamic perspectives, religious and philosophical implications of data and theories originating in the natural, biological, and cognitive sciences. The prime goal of the journal is to enhance our understanding of God, life, and the cosmos. JIS also serves as a creative forum for establishing a renewed and rigorous relationship with the spiritual and intellectual traditions of Islam. 

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The Secularist Modernist Bias of Western Social Sciences

Western social sciences in general bear a clear stamp of the modernist and secularist bias of the Western liberal academy. Adopting their typical mode of enquiry entails an ipso facto espousal of the liberal and secularist worldview with its epistemological and cultural preferences. Such an epistemological framework is largely confined to empiricism and its cultural perceptions are constricted by a Euro-centric view of history. It is a truism that an empirical mode of enquiry by its very nature cannot go beyond a partial perception of human existential reality. When this mode is further restricted by Western cultural dogmatics, it defies the perception of objective reality, precludes the cognition of significant subjective, introspective, and emotional dimensions of human behavior, and falls short of recognizing significant variables of cultural relativism. Therefore, this method is not only unfit to understand Muslim societies and their dynamics, it also fails to reach an adequate understanding of the various dimensions of human social behavior in general.

Muhammad al-Ghazali

Islam, Rationality and Science

Mohammad Hashim Kamali

Examining the Meta-Principles of Modern Economics and their Implications for Islamic Banking and Finance

The foundational principles of modern neoclassical economics, as of other disciplines of the social sciences, have been influenced by the overall trajectory of post-enlightenment, secular, humanistic thought and its epistemological roots such as rationalism, methodological individualism, and the assumed supremacy of the scientific method as a way of evaluating all forms of knowledge. This paper contends that an Islamic economics and finance bereft of analyzing and addressing these principles has inadvertently reinforced the very same problematic structures it originally intended to replace.​

Yusuf Jha

Challenges to Islam and Muslims: What is to be Done?

Of course this question has been asked before under circumstances no less threatening than those which confront us today and with a similar sense of urgency, if not more. And each time this question has been asked, there was a response which outlined a detailed account of the malaise faced by the community of believers, the Ummah, its reasons, and a course of action that would correct the malady.

Muzaffar Iqbal 

In Remembrance