Integration of Islamic Studies and Sciences: Study of the Implementation and Practice of Scientific Integration at UIN Alauddin Makassar

Penulis Ibrahim

doi:10.47191/ijmra/v5-i3-02

Abstract

This study examines the implementation and practice of integrating Islamic and general science into the lecture process at the State Islamic University (UIN) Alauddin Makassar. The process and efforts to realize the concept of scientific integration in the realm of policy and the process of its formation will be approached with a historical approach. Meanwhile, the practice of implementing scientific integration guidelines in lectures is approached sociologically, especially the limitations and problems of how this concept is practiced at UIN Alauddin Makassar. The results of this study conclude that at least the last two decades since IAIN changed to UIN ALauddin Makassar, have taken steps, namely: first, the process of seeding the idea of scientific integration, incorporating the idea of scientific integration into the vision and mission and implementing it into university policies that support the integration process. Second, integration efforts at UIN Alauddin are also carried out in the process of teaching courses and writing student scientific papers. Some of the efforts that have been made to realize integrative teaching of courses and scientific works are by attaching verses to courses, teaching integrative courses, implementing team teaching, memorizing chapter 30 for each UIN student and implementing Character Building Training for each student.

Highlights

Leading public universities in Indonesia have struggled with efforts to transform IAIN into UIN for almost two decades
Many have questioned if IAIN has been able to open a general faculty, what is its distinction from other higher education institutions that has existed for a long time with general science provided
Qadir Gassing, HT, MS in a speech at the Senate forum that "Scientific integration"i “Other public education institutions only learn general scientific knowledge, at UIN Alauddin the general faculty will study general sciences along with Islamic studies, while the religious faculties give greater weight to general science than before so that an integration feature between traditional Islamic sciences which mostly comes from the Qur'an and Hadith with general sciences emerges"

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Introduction

Leading public universities in Indonesia have struggled with efforts to transform IAIN into UIN for almost two decades This effort aims to provide a wider space to develop science by creating study programs or faculties with studies of sciences in accordance with Islamic studies. This creation realized in early 2002 when IAIN Syarief Hidayatullah, Jakarta received a Presidential Decree regarding the conversion from IAIN to the State Islamic University, From “Institute‟ to “University‟. The authority to open a new faculty aside from Islamic studies is the most prominent and significant change on institution’s characteristic which was once known as an institution for Islamic studies to be an institution that provides general subjects such as: medicine, engineering, economics, arts and humanities Qadir Gassing, HT, MS in a speech at the Senate forum that "Scientific integration"i “Other public education institutions only learn general scientific knowledge, at UIN Alauddin the general faculty will study general sciences along with Islamic studies, while the religious faculties give greater weight to general science than before so that an integration feature between traditional Islamic sciences which mostly comes from the Qur'an and Hadith with general sciences emerges" (minute of senate meeting)

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