The Three Minds between the Early Adopters and the Latecomers and the Dilemma of Integration

Abstract

The research discusses the division of the three famous minds in Islamic history, which Muhammad Aabed Al-Jabiri brought to life in the contemporary time, and his criticism of Taha Abdurrahman with his approach based on division, and the ladder of division. Al-Jabri believed in the separation and preference of minds, and Taha Abdel-Rahman believed in integration. The research compares the methodology of Al-Jabiri and Abdurrahman in the light of the divisions of the previous scholars, especially Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn Khaldun, who discussed these minds with a difference in the clarity of the division, its priorities and their scientific sense, and both believed in the integration of these minds without preferring any of them. Through this discussion, the objectivity of the early scholars in the division and the view of integration becomes clear. The research suggested a solution to the problem of integration through the purposes of Sharia and scientific discretion, which in turn needs a social anthropological study to conclude the way scientists use scientific discretion within their reality.