Cognitive integration in the social sciences between the Islamic approach and positivism : an analytical critical approach

Abstract EN

The scientific debate about cognitive integration in the social sciences is not new in cognitive circles.

As different scholars have dealt with this topic from various perspectives, so the current study in this context to discuss the perspective of cognitive integration in the social sciences between Islam and positivism through a critical and analytical approach, and it focuses on certain dimensions that some scholars have argued as imbalances in the system.

It discusses this in the light of the Islamic perspective, thus enabling an understanding of the reality of the impact of these imbalances on the effectiveness in facing the reality of contemporary social problems.

The study uses comparative methods and adopts the use of qualitative content analysis to obtain data from relevant sources.

The study found that (1) the situational social cognitive system lacks important elements that depend on cognitive approaches, (2) there are criticisms of the Islamic approach regarding the integration of sources of knowledge and presenting such integration as the only desirable example.

Lifestyle, as the origin of human knowledge, lay in existing facts, (3) the exclusion of religion from knowledge, justified by positivism in the name of moral and objective neutrality, resulted in the separation of knowledge from religion, causing the destruction of the environment and social wellbeing.