Summarizing the Model of Tawhidi Methodological Worldview

Abstract

The structure of argumentation and explanation in IPS (Islamic Philosophy of Science) is developed and derived from the Qur’an based on the qur’anic meaning of Tawhid as law. Its foundational ontological premise, referred to as the Tawhidi episteme, is that of unity of knowledge and its induction of the generality and details of the metauniverse of all world-systems. The emergent construct of the Tawhidi IIE(θ(ε))-model is thereby derived. Its methodological functioning is unraveled. The inferences gained from the underlying methods consistent with the Tawhidi methodology of epistemic oneness are argued to be the consistent basis of IPS. The use of ta’wil (esoteric exegesis) in conjunction with tafseer (exoteric exegesis) interpretation of qur’anic verses are found to be the necessary ways of developing the subject matter of IPS. Otherwise, there is no substantive erudition of IPS in the light of the Qur’an, except for a rare reference to the great scholars (mujtahids), but then too being in the field of theoretical knowledge only. The development of the conjoint ontology-epistemology, referred to by us as the Tawhidi episteme (epistemic) combining abstraction and application by the structure and operation of the IIE(θ(ε))-model, has never before been discovered and used.