International Journal of Nusantara Islam
Vol 4, No 1 (2016): International Journal of Nusantara Islam

Al-Biruni: A Muslim Critical Thinker

Mohammad Noviani Ardi (International Islamic University Malaysia.)
Fatimah binti Abdullah (Department of Ushuluddin and Comparative Religion, Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Science, International Islamic University Malaysia.)
Shihab al- Tamimi (Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage in Ushuluddin and Comparative Religion, International Islamic University Malaysia.)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Mar 2016

Abstract

As an academic course, critical thinking has emerged in the last century as the one of the important subjects, especially in the second half. But as a kind of thinking and a process of the human reason, it was exist as old as mankind. What are known, nowadays, as (standards) of critical thinking or (characteristic) of critical thinker were used by some ancient Greek philosophers, e.g. Socrates, Aristotle, as well as great Muslim scholars, e.g. al-Biruni, al-Ghazali, etc. al-Biruni was known as a great Muslim scholar due to objectively scientific method in his works. Moreover, he also was famed in comparative religion which early in history of discipline of comparative religion. However, this study attempts to talk about al-Biruni, one of greatest Muslim scholar in history from another side of previously discussion. It is tries to analyze al-Biruni as a Muslim critical thinker based on his monumental work of Tahqiq ma li al-Hind min Maqulah Maqbulah fi al-‘Aql aw Mardhulah or it is known by Kitab al-Hind.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ijni

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Subject

Religion Arts Humanities

Description

International Journal of Nusantara Islam is focused on Islamic studies related to its teachings resources, thoughts, history, law, politics, economics, education, culture, Islamic propagation, communication, psychology, and science and technology available in the Nusantara territories i.e. ...