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Critical thinking (CT) has today gone beyond borders, beliefs, and disciplines. It is naturally connected to human nature as the quality of human life is determine by the quality of his thinking. Recent studies prove and common sense recognizes the need to embed the teaching of Critical thinking across the curriculum (Geertshuis & Albashiry, 2019). As valuable as this most important 21st century skills there is still growing misconception about its meaning, and applications moreover many consider Critical thinking as alien to Islamic teaching. This paper therefore, attempts to humbly give a substantive definition of Critical thinking from both the modern and Islamic perspectives, with particular reference to Paul Elder framework for Critical thinking and show the origin of critical thinking from the Islamic world view. It is quite troubling to find teachers of Islamic studies today not responsive to the contemporary global challenges (Nordin & Surajudeen, 2015; Rosnani, Suhailah, & Adesile, 2014; Sahin, 2018; Sciences et al., 2018). Islamic knowledge integration which is based on Tawhidic epistemology is increasingly attracting attention of intellectuals across the globe, especially as the prevalent view on critical thinking is mostly rooted from the modern secularistic system that emphasized on materialism and lead humanity to a narrow mindedness and focusing only to the things of the life here without given premium to the afterlife. Al-Qur’an being the compendium source that comprehensively contained all that human kind need to know about this life and the life hereafter, has left no stone unturned. Finding the Qur’anic perspective about thinking generally and Critical thinking particularly is not only relevant but indispensable. The knowledge of it will help in supplementing the limitations of the modern perspectives of critical thinking which give emphasis to the mundane while Islamic or Qur’an goes beyond that. Consequently, the authors attempt to analyse and discuss Critical thinking from the lens of Qur’an and show areas of similarities and differences between the modern and Quranic Paradigm with the hope that the humble efforts will clarify the much misconception on the central position of CT from the Islamic perspectives, also to serve as reference material to both teachers and students of knowledge. |
