NEW CONCEPT OF IGNORANCE: AN ISLAMIC EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STORY OF MOSES AS RELEVANT REFERENCE FOR CONTEMPORARY ULAMA

Putra, D.I. Ansusa (2019) NEW CONCEPT OF IGNORANCE: AN ISLAMIC EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STORY OF MOSES AS RELEVANT REFERENCE FOR CONTEMPORARY ULAMA. ISLAM REALITAS: Journal of Islamic & Social Studies, 5 (2). pp. 114-129. ISSN 2477-1309

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Abstract

The understanding of knowledge in the Islamic literature is more focus on the conception of knowledge itself, such as the epistemology of ma'rifah al-Ghazali, the epistemology of Islamic science Syed Nuqaib al-Attas, and the epistemology of the Qur’an Fazlur Rahman. This article is different from the previous concept that looks at knowledge from its antonym, Ignorance (Jahiliyyah). Ignorance is the important topic of socio-religious in the Qur’an which creates new understanding in Islamic epistemological consftruction. This article argues that in the Qur’an antonimical perspective, Ignorance is the antonym of the word "Islam". Here, Islam has not only seen as a religious institution. Islam is the knowledge itself which full of goodness and good perspective. While Ignorance is the absence of knowledge which at the same time as a source of everything contrary to Islam as knowledge. This statement would affect the epistemological construction of science as a whole and creates a new concept in seeing Islam and everything related to it. This article analyzes the verses of the Moses story in the Qur’an through what I call the antonymy interpretation method. It meant, interpreting the Qur’an about the knowledge through the antonym of the knowledge itself, that is nescience, ignorance and idiocy. The results of this study do not emplace the ulama as guardians of religious authority as understood today, but the ulama are groups of people who have capabilities in the structuring of Islam as knowledge.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords / Katakunci:	Concept of ignorance, Epistemology of the Qur’an, Contemporary ulama.
Subjects:	2x1 Al Qur'an dan Ilmu Berkaitan > 2x1.6 Kandungan Al Qur'an 2x1 Al Qur'an dan Ilmu Berkaitan 2x7 Filsafat dan Perkembangan 2x0 Islam (Umum) > 2x0.1 Islam dan Filsafat
Divisions:	Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Studi Agama > Ilmu Al Qur'an dan Tafsir
Depositing User:	Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Studi Agama
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2020 08:31
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2020 08:31
URI:	http://repository.uinjambi.ac.id/id/eprint/945

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