II. Pedia Sapiens: A Planetary Progeny Comes to Her/His Own Twintelligent Gaiable Knowledge

3. The Song Book of Naturome: A New Translation

Zaida b. Ismail, Mohd. The Cosmos as the Created Book and its Implications for the Orientation of Science. Islam & Science. 6/1, 2008. The director of the Centre for Science and Technology at the Institute for Islamic Understanding in Malaysia claims that a witness and sensitivity to universal nature as an ordained scriptural testament is indeed a fundamental essence of Muslim truth and belief. Compare also its agreement with the 2007 Seyyed Nasr volume in this section.

Based on the conception of the Cosmos as a grand, created Book consisting of Divine signs, a conception made possible by the linguistic-conceptual system of the Islamized Arabic, this article deliberates on the orientation of science in Islam by elaborating on two theoretical implications of such a conception: one being the avoidance of secularization as a philosophical program, the most fundamental component of which is the disenchantment of nature; and the other being the appropriation of the tafsir-ta’wil method of reading the signs and symbols of the Qur’an into science. (31)

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