Tag: philosophy of knowledge
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From Islamisation to Fricativisation: Four Paradigms Transforming Indonesia’s State Islamic Universities
Indonesia’s State Islamic Universities have undergone a profound intellectual transformation. Their development from IAIN into UIN did more than expand institutional structures and academic programmes. It forced Islamic higher education to reconsider the foundations, sources, purposes, and organisation of knowledge itself. This essay examines four major paradigms that have shaped this transformation: the Islamisation of…
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Fricative Knowledge Paradigm: Beyond Interdisciplinarity Toward Spiritual Epistemology
Modern interdisciplinarity promises integration, yet silently reproduces fragmentation by remaining trapped within an immanent epistemic frame. This essay proposes the Paradigm of the Fricativization of Knowledge as a radical alternative—an epistemological process in which knowledge is deliberately narrowed, strained, and spiritually conditioned to regain density, meaning, and orientation toward al-Ḥaqq. Fricativization rejects smooth synthesis and…