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The first point relates to the so-called “Weberian dernagnification of the world," a concept developed in Europe during the seventeenth century that rests on the modern understanding of objectivity in the sciences.
Observation, experimentation, experience, and scientific hypothesis, which are all fundamental features of ijtihad (self-exertion in the quest for knowledge), are essential steps in Islamic methodology, itself based mainly upon induction, deduction, and analogy (qiyizs) (i.
After achieving this, the Muslims then made it their task to master the then- known sciences and to erect thereby a civilization based on the blessings of the authentic Islamic worldview, a worldview which had renounced once and for all any link between superstition, magic, and irrational fears and the knowledge of nature or society.
Clearly, in the context of “China,” he was emphasizing the objective sciences and not religious knowledge and was also pointing out the international nature of the scientific quest.
Regarding the cycle of Islam, the outstanding achievements of Muslim scholars in developing science and methods of scientific research are there for all to see.
The third point relates to the allegation that the project of the Islamization of knowledge is a claim to dewesternization, and hence nothing but a defensive response to modern Western science’s claim to universal validity.
It is a matter of course, within the framework of these Islamic epistemological foundations, that contemporary Muslim intellectuals must contest both traditional and secular perspectives of knowledge and the resulting worldviews based on them.
F. Scientific Heritage of Islam and Its Value in the History of Science and Civilization.