Kaedah Pengilmuan Swacuan

Abstract

It is explained that knowledge grows in a mould created by scholars concerned and the meaning of a mould of knowledge is shown to have different features than the famous knowledge paradigm introduced by Kuhn in 1962. The present science is shown to be in a mould created by the European (Western) scientists, whereas the knowledge in other moulds created by other nations or civilisations do exist but fossilised or stagnated as they are overlaid or enclosed and restricted by the colonial (Western) mould. Knowledge in other mould is given the name by the European scholars as the ethnoknowledge which is regarded as far inferior than the Western knowledge. But since 1960s the knowledge in the Islamic Civilisation is re-excavated and highlighted its mould as well. In 1970’s to especially 1990’s the Western knowledge is re-examined in the Islamic mould and a new knowledge is materialised in this mould via a research activity known as the Islamization of knowledge. But since 1995, the author introduced a new research activity wider than the Islamization of knowledge and it is given the name as the pemeribumian ilmu (or literally but not the same concept as the Western indigenisation of knowledge). The mould of knowledge in the pemeribumian ilmu is referred to as the our own mould or in short self-mould and more specific as the Malayonesian mould of knowledge. The research activity is referred to as the self-moulding of knowledge or construction of knowedge via a self-mould. This article is filled with the explanation of this activity and some results of the research done by the author since 2010-2021 are listed in the appendix of this paper.