WAHYU SEBAGAI SISTEM EPISTEMOLOGI KOMPREHENSIF: TANTANGAN TERHADAP KRISIS KEBENARAN DALAM FILSAFAT BARAT KONTEMPORER
Keywords:
al-wahy, Islamic epistemology, post-truth, postmodernism, qaidah fikriyyahAbstract
Contemporary epistemology faces a crisis that is not merely technical but structural in nature: rationalism has proven unable to transcend phenomenal limits, empiricism has failed to establish necessary induction, and postmodernism has collapsed into paralyzing nihilism. This study argues that the root of this crisis lies in a single foundational decision of the Enlightenment era: the systematic exclusion of revelation (al-wahy) from the list of legitimate sources of knowledge. Through a comparative philosophical analysis, this paper places classical Islamic epistemology — al-Ghazali, Ibn Taymiyyah, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi — in dialogue with Western traditions from Descartes, Hume, and Kant to Popper and postmodern thinkers. Three main arguments are advanced: first, the Western truth crisis is structural and rooted in the exclusion of revelation; second, revelation in the Islamic tradition constitutes an epistemological system that is internally coherent, empirically relevant, and metaphysically comprehensive; third, the concept of qaidah fikriyyah provides the framework for an Integrated Revelation-Based Epistemology (IRBE) as a constructive response to the epistemological impasse of the post-truth era. The study concludes that the restoration of revelation as an epistemological foundation is not a pre-modern regression, but a sophisticated and relevant philosophical response.
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