• Majidah

Man is vicegerent of God (Khalifa). In order to enable him to fulfill his responsibilities, Almighty Allah endowed man with potentials of knowledge. It becomes incumbent upon him to mould this knowledge as per the Islamic framework. Therefore, all types of knowledge whether it is natural science, social science, or even pure science should aim at establishing an Islamic system. Islam is essentially a religion of knowledge, knowledge as per Islam, is the central means to salvation of soul and to the attainment of human happiness in this life as well as in life hereafter. Moreover, Divine Unity (Tawhid) and Equilibrium (Itidal) are the main principles of Islam and it upholds the idea of hierarchy and unity of knowledge and of modes of knowing. All possible avenues to knowledge are duly recognized and each accorded a legitimate place and function within the total scheme of Islam. The Muslims have a firm belief that Allah alone is absolute and everything else is relative. This belief is found on the Islamic principle of Tawhid. As the Absolute Truth, Allah is the source of all other truths which, however, admit of a hierarchy or degrees of relativity and these levels of relative truths are known to man through a number of ways. As per Islam, man is bestowed by all the necessary faculties of knowing which enable him to know all that he needs to know. In contemporary world many epistemological theories has come to fore like rationalist theory which believes in that type of knowledge being ultimate that is based on reason alone and empiricist theory which believes on that type of knowledge being ultimate that is based on experience and in present paper an attempt has been made to prove that it is only the Islamic epistemology that is more profound, comprehensive and perfect than most of the present world theories of knowledge.

Epistemology, knowledge, world, Islam.

"Concept of epistemology as per Quran", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.62-65, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C12.pdf

"Concept of epistemology as per Quran", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp62-65, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906C12.pdf