Reductionism in Humanities (essay extract)
Excerpt from "Way Forward: Operationalising a Higher Education Model Based on Islam". "Believing that only positivist convention which accepts only observed knowledge as the truth, hence, can attain the status of natural sciences, non-scientists adopted blindly these tenets as the scientific method for research and teaching practices in non-science and humanities. Quantity has now masqueraded as quality to the extent that only what can be measured, counts, as in the case of performance indicators for instance. It seems incongruous that a Muslim scholar would consciously reject revealed knowledge as a method of knowing when Islam is a religion founded upon faith of the unseen and that the Quran was revealed to the Prophet PBUH through revelation mode. Muslims too, know the importance of intention or niyyah and its qualitative nature which cannot be substituted with quantitative measure. Ignorance of Comte's motivation for social science appears highly likely a plaus