TY - BOOK AU - Ṣāfī,Luʼayy ED - International Islamic University Malaysia TI - The foundation of knowledge: a comparative study in Islamic and western methods of inquiry SN - 9839727036 U1 - 297.2 23 PY - 1996/// CY - Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia PB - International Islamic University Malaysia Press, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Malaysia KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index; The quest for an Islamic methodology -- Textual analysis: the rules of direct inference -- Logical analysis: the rules of systematic inference -- Science and the problematic of metaphysical knowledge -- Naturalistic methods and the peculiarity of social studies -- Towards a unified approach to shariʻah and social inference ER -