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SOCIOLOGY G1631221
SOCIOLOGY is:
• A field of inquiry (question) which is aimed at increasing knowledge
through the observation of human beings
• THEIR:
• Customs
• Rituals
• Superstitions (unfounded belief)
• Models of organization and disorganization
• Laws
• Politics
• economics
MUSLIM CIVILIZATION
PRODUCED:
•(Ethnographic: relating to the scientific description of peoples and cultures with their customs,
habits, and mutual differences)
Three major sources which provided impulse toward such
knowledge among medieval Muslims:
Some of the very major Muslim contributions to this field have been
without any noticeable practical concern.
He provided a
theoretical • Aimed at purifying history
frame
Man is weak initially ignorant and Allah gave man the power of
basically self-centered reasoning and abstract thinking
In doing this, • Not only saved the ummah from utter religious chaos,
they also
these • Left a tradition according to which the Islamic law
scholars could be reformulated and modified
Contemporary Muslim Sociologists
• Several Muslim students have been trained in sociology in the
West or
• They have been trained by those who got their education in
the Western tradition of sociology
• These Muslim sociologists do not face much of an Islamic
dilemma in their studies.
• Instead of showing any originality (creation) within the field of
sociology
• They remained satisfied, for the most part, with their
respective roles as technician; or,
• As pioneers in sociology in their respective countries
But the situation is not completely hopeless!
• Not only is man caught in a dilemma within himself, the whole of human
history describes a dialectical progression and alteration between just
and unjust social orders in human society.
The • When a number of prophets set out to establish a just order, they
nature of always faced the threat of challenge and even annihilation.
human • Even after a prophet was able to establish such an order, his
history descendants soon forgot the true message and so contaminated it.
• Finally, came the last and the most comprehensive formula for human
social life – Islam – through the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon
him).