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D. Abdullah Saeed’s Development of Methods of Quranic Interpretation  Abdullah Saeed has an educational background in Arabic language and literature and Middle Eastern studies. His study in Saudi Arabia and his academic career in Melbourne show that he is competent in assessing the Western and Eastern worlds objectively. Saeed is very concerned with the contemporary Islamic world, in particular in relation to how Islamic teachings can be applied anywhere at any time, as well as in the real context of living as a Muslim (minority) in a Western country, a notion he refers to as Progressive Islam, in which the subjects are progressive Muslims. Progressive Islam is an attempt to reactivate the progressive dimension of Islam which has undergone in a fairly long period of torpor in which thedynamism of Islam in everyday life was suppressed by the dominance ofthe text. This textual domination is referred to by Mohammad Abid al-Jabiry as the dominance of rational type of Bayani epistemolog...

Al-Jāmi‘ah: Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 52, no. 1 (2014), pp. 175-203, doi: 10.14421/ajis.2014.521.175-203 RELIGION, SCIENCE AND CULTURE An Integrated, Interconnected Paradigm of Science1 M. Amin Abdullah Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta, Indonesia email: aminabdullah53@gmail.com Abstract Discussing the paradigm of dialogue and integration in the Islamic science of religion is important since the practice of religious education still applies the paradigm of conflict and independence. These paradigms have a great influence on the formation of socio-religious and cultural ways of thinking. The relationship between Islamic religiousc and natural, social, as well as cultural sciences, needs patterns of integrated, interconnected relations and dialogues. Islamic Studies requires a multidisciplinary approach, that is, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Scientific linearity, in which science is narrowly defined and mono-disciplinary, will lead to an understandi...