The Cosmos as the Created Book and its Implications for the Orientation of Science

Mohd Zaidi b. Ismail

doi:10.66207/jis.v6i1.97

Authors

Mohd Zaidi b. Ismail Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.66207/jis.v6i1.97

Keywords:

Islamic worldview, natural sciences, philosophy of science, cosmos, nature, universe, secularization, cosmos as a sign of the Creator, al-Qurʾān, āyāt, ʿilm, tafsīr, taʾwīl, muḥkamāt, mutashābihāt

Abstract

Based on the conception of the Cosmos as a grand, created Book consisting of Divine Signs, a conception made possible by the linguistic-conceptual system of the Islamized Arabic, this article deliberates on the orientation of science in Islām by elaborating on two theoretical implications of such a conception: one be- ing the avoidance of secularization as a philosophical program, the most fundamental component of which is the disenchantment of nature; and the other being the appropriation of the tafsīr-taʾwīl method of read- ing the signs and symbols of the Qurʾān into science.