Conclusion

Abstract

In this book we have shown that the study of Islamic social sciences arises from the treatment of epistemology in any scientific inquiry being premised on a systemic and study of endogenous ethics and values. Such a treatment of the social sciences in particular and scientific inquiry in general is found to rest upon the world view of an interactively integrated universe and its large and small subsystems. Knowledge in such an interactive-integrative world view takes its meaning from the underlying precept of unification across systems. This unification principle is deduced from and converges with the most reduced and foundational axiom of divine unity. It is seen as the essence ingrained in the cosmic whole and its parts. In the Islamic world view this unity is divine unity of Tawhidi. It is comprehended not as an empty cosmic wholeness, but as a functional form playing a knowledge-centred role in all epistemological explanations of reality.