Islamization of Social Sciences: A Literature Review

Since the l977 International Conference on Islamic Education in Makkah, we have witnessed tremendous efforts among Muslim scholars to engage in a movement call the Islamization of Knowledge. Islamrzation of social sciences, for a number of epistemological and methodological reasons, is the heart of this intellectual movement. This review will consider three relevant books and eleven articles written by Muslim social scientists. It is acknowledged that this list is anything but exhaustive. Nevertheless, these works are representative of the various positions Muslim social scientists take in the Islamization of their discipline and in the epistemological and methodological strategies they adopt to engage in the Islamrzing process