TY - BOOK AU - Safi,Luayy AU - International Institute of Islamic Thought TI - The foundation of knowledge: a comparative study in Islamic and western methods of inquiry SN - 9781565644786 AV - BD161 .F686 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Herndon, Virginia PB - The International Institute of Islamic Thought KW - Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) KW - Knowledge, Theory of N1 - 1 (pages 205-208) and index; Going full circle : human knowledge and the imperative of metaphysics --; Textual analysis : rules of direct inference (Mayan) -- Logical analysis : rules of systematic inference --; Science and the problematic of metaphysical knowledge --; Empirical analysis : rules of inductive inference --; Naturalistic methods and the peculiarity of social studies --; Towards an integrative approach to studying social phenomena; 2 ER -