What is the worldview and
methodology of Tawhid and its perspectives and applications in real-world
issues and problems? For always, deep science and its epistemology be these in
the physical or the social and economic domains, have looked for concepts in
developing generalized systems of unity of knowledge and its induction of the socio-scientific
and physical ontology with the resulting real-world applications. It does not
matter from where the episteme of the imminent unity of knowledge and its
induction of the world-system arises. This may come from the monotheistic
origin of religion or from philosophy of science and its mathematical
ramification.
Yet such an
episteme cannot arise from rationalism, which is a differentiated mode of thought with
its concomitant applications. The intellectual pursuit of the field of inquiry in
history, civilization, moral reconstruction and substantive meaning belongs to
the contrasting fields of unity of knowledge and multiplicity of divided and
opposing thoughts in rationalism. Yet paradoxically, rationalism prevails in all of
received sciences.
Tawhid means the
Qur’anic monotheistic law of unity of knowledge. As the divine monotheistic law,
Tawhid explains the generality and details of the world-system and its
particulars by its unique methodological worldview of unity of knowledge. Along
with the Tawhidi methodology is studied its applications to issues and problems
of moral reconstruction. The underlying methodology is one of organically
unified relational world-system in unity of knowledge. Such an intellection and
its formalism are based on deeply analytical concepts, formalism, and rigorous
applications.
The
field of moral reconstruction rests on the explanation and manifestation of the
monotheistic law in its actions as the evolutionary learning worldview
methodologically applied to the core of substantive understanding. The emanating
knowledge and methodological worldview addresses all issues and problems within
the domain of the wide field of valuations in ‘everything’. The methodological
worldview and its application are thereby not restricted by religious
constriction. It is a message for all and regarding ‘everything’. Scholarship only needs to decipher the
investigative problems and issues as they arise. This appears in contrast
to the field of rationalism with its dualism and multiplicity of differentiated
thought.
Tawhid and World-System (TWS) website is associated with the
Postgraduate Program in Islamic Economics and Finance, (IEF) in the Faculty of
Economics, Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia. It is
devoted to the study of the methodological approach premised in the relational epistemology
of unity of knowledge
(Tawhid). This conceptual foundation of the Islamic methodological worldview is then followed by its applications to the unification of
evolutionary learning dynamics in the world-system with the dynamics of organic
system interaction and integration.
Specific areas of
scholarly studies will include lectures given in useful forms to readers free of cost. Written
materials will be available; online seminars will be conducted; and
publications will be divulged to students and readers. The academic areas will extend
over a vast range of multidisciplinary studies that arise from Tawhidi
methodology and its applications. Individual teaching and research are promoted by
experts of TWS. Ph.D. Degree in IEF are offered by Trisakti University,
Jakarta, Indonesia. the length of study and independent
research under supervision is three years of focused study on specified topics. Such
topics can be jointly set by consultation between supervisors and students. Admission
to degree programs is competitive. TWS promotes a multidisciplinary methodological objective.
Qur’anic, sunnah, and comparative Islamic studies are
combined with a critical
comparative examination
of contemporary
Islamic and Western thought. Mathematics,
statistics, and philosophy of science are essential medium of intellection in
TWS. The
online delivery of programs will be done by a combination of live interaction
to the full student group, and by individual email contact.
