Al-Attas on Tafsir and Ta’wil as Legacy of Islamic Sciences

One of the things that is neglected in the discourse on the Islamization of Contemporary Knowledge (ICK) is translating it into systematic methods in research or scientific development activities. In the context of natural science, which is the focus of this research, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, is a philosopher, not a scientist who works in a typical intellectual climate, for example conducting research in a laboratory or formulating theorems mathematically. Therefore, so that al-Attas' philosophical ideas can work more operationally and touch the methodological area, al-Attas' IOK must be brought into the realm of philosophy of science. In this study, the figure chosen in the philosophy of science discourse is Imre Lakatos. Lakatos was chosen because he is a scientist as well as an expert in the philosophy of science. In this writing, the research focuses on two things: (1) formulating the methodology of Islamic scientific research programs based on the conceptual framework of al-Atttas' Islamization of contemporary knowledge and Lakatos methodology of scientific research program; (2) reading the structure of the natural sciences and their problems, based on the formulation in point (1) as a starting point for re-conceptualizing, re-defining and re-formulating the key concepts of natural science. With a qualitative approach, the authors collect data from primary and secondary sources, then through descriptive, analytical and critical methods, the authors examine the data to arrive at the purpose of writing this thesis. Based on the analysis conducted, this research resulted in two things. First, the main structure of natural science, based on the framework of …