KONSEP INTEGRASI-INTERKONEKSI M. AMIN ABDULLAH (Implikasinya Bagi Pengembangan Studi Islam)

Abstract

Islam as a religion is demanded to always be relevant in responding to all challenges as well as problems that are always developing. In this way, Islamic scientists and thinkers are always trying to find an alternative in developing the Islamic tradition in order to solve this growing problem. M. Amin Abdullah is one of the leading Islamic thinkers who tries to develop scientific traditions in Islam, he introduces two approaches in the study of Islamic studies, namely the Normative and Historical approaches. In addition according to M. Amin Abdullah, in the study of Islamic studies, there is often a dichotomous pattern between religious knowledge and general science, such as psychology, sociology, history, economics and politics. To bridge the tension between the two sciences, M. Amin Abdullah introduced a concept called Integration-Interconnection, broadly speaking this concept intends to describe the dichotomous pattern of the two sciences, and that both sciences can be used in Islamic studies. In this study the method used is the Library Research method and also through a descriptive-analytic approach. The results of this study indicate that M. Amin Abdullah through his Integration-Interconnection concept has succeeded in bridging the two sciences of religion and general science which has been associated so far that the two sciences have different study directions. However, through the concept of Integration-Interconnection, M. Amin Abdullah tried to use the two sciences because according to him, the two sciences could not work individually and meant that they had to complement each other.