CATEGORIZATION OF ISLAMIC THINKING

Abstract

Epistemology discusses the sources of knowledge and how to obtain

knowledge. History has recorded that Islamic civilization was once the mecca of

world knowledge around the 7th century to the 15th century. After that, the

packaging period began to become Malay, static, even backwards to the 21st

century. The method used to obtain the data needed in this discussion is the Library

Research method. The result is that there are 3 (three) categorizations of Islamic

thinking, namely Bayani epistemology, which is an epistemology which assumes

that the source of knowledge is revelation (text) or reasoning from the text. Burhani

epistemology is an epistemology which holds that the source of knowledge is reason.

Meanwhile, the epistemology of 'irfani is an epistemology which assumes that

knowledge is the will (iradah). These three categories of thinking also have their

respective advantages which of course can be used according to the problem or

situation at hand.