تخلیقی علمیاتی وساطت: جدید سائنسی و فکری بحرانوں کے تناظر میں وحی، عقل اور تجربے پر مبنی ایک جامع اسلامی اطلاقی ماڈل

Creative Epistemic Mediation: An Integrated Islamic Applied Model of Revelation, Reason, and Empirical Science for Addressing Contemporary Intellectual and Scientific Crises

Abstract

While contemporary scientific and technological advancements have facilitated unprecedented material convenience, the underlying modern epistemology—characterized by metaphysical rupture and 'value-neutrality' has simultaneously precipitated a profound intellectual and ethical impasse. In burgeoning domains such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), genetic engineering, and pervasive digital surveillance, the detachment of science from axiological foundations has posed existential threats to human dignity and natural equilibrium. Within the Muslim world, this crisis manifests as 'epistemic incoherence,' where institutional and scientific structures operate within Western epistemological paradigms while ethical and ontological references remain fundamentally Islamic.

This paper proposes a rigorous conceptual framework titled "Creative Epistemic Mediation" to resolve this fragmentation. This model constructs a hierarchical synthesis integrating Revelation, human reason, and modern empirical sciences into a unified epistemological structure: defining Revelation (Wahy) as the sovereign moral criterion, Human Understanding (Fahm) as an active and creative mediation, and Modern Science as contextualizing evidence (Qar’ain) rather than a rival source of authority. Methodologically, the research establishes an operational methodology for processing contemporary scientific dilemmas through empirical cognition, moral filtration, and creative synthesis. To validate the model's efficacy, two case studies—AI Privacy and CRISPR Genetic Engineering are analyzed, illustrating that Islamic ethical principles can safeguard human dignity without impeding technological innovation. Ultimately, the paper presents Islam not merely as a dialogue partner for modern science but as a global civilizational alternative capable of providing coherent, ethical, and practical solutions to the contemporary crises of modernity.