Abdulkarim Soroush is a contemporary Shi'ite thinker whose ideas on religion and the Qur'an is controversial. His ideas is part of his criticism against Islamic regime in iran especially the Iranian clergy. This article is devoted to study his theory, Contraction and Expansion of Religious Knowledge, that discussed about the differences between religion and religious science. The first is divin…
Pendidikan Islam tidak mengkontraskan ilmu agama dan ilmu umum, ilmu dan agama mempunyai hubungan yang erat, keduanya tidak bisa dipisahkan dan saling melengkapi. Manusia bebas menuntut ilmu dan mengembangkan teknologi tetapi semua itu harus didasari oleh agama. Ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi tidak selayaknya justru menjerumuskan manusia. Tingginya ilmu yang dilandasi oleh keimanan dan kesaleha…
All mamkind's deeds are controlled under certain regulations based on Islamic teaching. The knowledge of such regulation is called as Fiqh. The regulation is arranged in a certain hierarchy. The first and the highest structure is the source of the regulation, the ones called as al Qur'an ans As Sunah. The second source is the interpretation of Ulama as th effort to understand the meaning betwee…
This paper is intended to picture out assumption and risk which will happen in the development of epistemology of twin at IAIN Sunan Ampel in its effort to welcome its substitution into UIN. The result of the paper shows that the development of epistemology of the twin tower with the purpose to place religion knowledge and general knowledge in integrated, in which the grand design is in process…
Penelitian ini membahas tentang ilmu asmaul haq, khususnya unsur2 yang ada dalam ilmu tersebut, proses transmisinya, dimensi spiritual, serta kontribusinya bagi pengamat ilmu tersebut. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara wawancara, angket, dokumentasi dan observasi. Pengumpulan data kualitatif lebih ditekankan dengan teknik wawancara mendalam kepada sumber data, sedangkan untuk data kuantita…
Studi ilmu agama Islam dipandang sebagai kegiatan keagamaan dan keilmuan sekaligus. Ketika dipandang sebagai kegiatan keilmuan, maka ia perlu memapankan pondasi keilmiahannya melalui telaah filsafat ilmu. Menurut filsafat ilmu, hampir semua jenis ilmu pengetahuan, mengalami apa yang disebut dengan shifting of paradigm. Studi ilmu agama Islam bukan pengecualian, sehingga sangat mungkin terjadi p…
Salah satu problem kontemporer yang tengah dihadapi oleh umat Islam adalah keterbelakangan mereka dalam pengembangan sains dewasa ini. Kemajuan sains secara umum saat ini lebih didominasi oleh Barat. Tema tulisan ini adalah perkembangan sains dan kemunculan teori-teori di seputarnya. Untuk mengelaborasi tema itu, maka penulis terlebih dahulu meninjau sacara sekilas runtutan perkembangan sains d…
Scientific methodlogy in economics encompasses a set of criteria, norms, and procedures used to hypothesize the characters, coverage, and the performance of economics. The early development of methodology is identified with the debate between positive economics againts normative economics. In 1980s, a number of new methods in economics were resulted. After the fall down of the positivism, the d…
The development of neo capitalism and imperalism forces Indonesia to be trapped deeper in the bilateral loan with other countries. The real evidence is the disempowerment happens in Indonesia with a fact of the increasing number of unemployment and poverty. The economy policy that emphasizes on the increase of number but notemployment should be taken much attention as it will make the economy o…
At the outset scientific knowledge was designed to solve human life problem. But in fact, it has influenced many negative effects for world civilization. The negative effects are not only material aspect, but also for value aspect. The problem of value will present an ethical problem to post-modern society. Post-modern society always thinks that scientific knowledge is based on specific values,…