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220816P - DISCUSSION ON THE DISCIPLINES OF KNOWLEDGE

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Presented at the IIIT European Summer School on 16 August 2022 by Omar Hasan K Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard), DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Bioethics King Fahad Medical City Riyadh


PRE-SCHOOL ASSIGNMENTS

  • This assignment will start before the start of the summer school and will be completed during the school.
  • Please choose any discipline of knowledge from among (a) health and biological sciences (b) physical sciences (c) social sciences/humanities.
  • For each chosen discipline summarize the following aspects for further discussion during the school:

  1. Definition and classification
  2. Historical development
  3. Basic Principles and Paradigms
  4. Main Research Methods
  5. Critique of the disciplines in terms of using the 2 sources of knowledge: transmission (naql) and reason (aql)
  6. Publications on the discipline from the Islamic perspective