Reconstructing the Paradigm of Islamic Education: The Epistemological Dialectic of Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas and Amin Abdullah

Yudi Gucandra; Andy Riski Pratama; Junaidi Junaidi

doi:10.58485/jie.v5i2.666

Authors

Yudi Gucandra Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, Indonesia
Andy Riski Pratama Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, Indonesia
Junaidi Junaidi Universitas Islam Negeri Sjech M. Djamil Djambek Bukittinggi, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58485/jie.v5i2.666

Keywords:

Al-Attas, Amin Abdullah, Maqashid al-Sharia, an integrative-adab paradigm

Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the paradigm of Islamic Religious Education through a dialectical approach to the thought of Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas and Amin Abdullah. The epistemological tension between Al-Attas’s hierarchical-deductive framework and Amin Abdullah’s dialogical-historical framework is not an issue to be eliminated, but rather a productive tension that serves as the driving force behind a new paradigm. Through a content analysis approach using descriptive-analytical-dialectical methods, this study formulates the concept of Maqashid as a criterion for integration namely, Al-Maqashid Al-Syariah, which encompasses Hifzh Al-Din, Hifzh Al-Nafs, Hifzh Al-Aql, Hifzh Al-Nasl, and Hifzh Al-Mal as an original mediating principle that simultaneously respects Al-Attas’s ontological-tauhidic foundations and opens space for Amin Abdullah’s methodological dialogue. From this, a framework for the dialectical-integrative adab paradigm is formulated, consisting of four layers: the ontological-tauhidic foundation; the contextual objectives of forming al-insan al-adib; a critical maqashid epistemology; and a transformative-contextual methodology. The novelty of this article lies in its bold acknowledgment of the epistemological tension between these two figures a tension that has rarely been explored in the literature. This article proposes the formulation of maqashid as criteria for integration as a genuinely new mediating principle, as well as the construction of a dialectical framework that is more dynamic and robust than previous synthesis models.

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