ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the fallacy of the positivista stand on science. It evaluates the work hitherto produced by the Aligarh school of Islamic Science. The chapter clarifies the position of Ijmali school of thought and also points out to some important works to be carried out in order to evolve Islamic science. The struggle for Islamic science therefore is at once theoretical, practical, educational and political. The Muslim civilization has to be reconstructed and have made efforts to reconstruct a contemporary Islamic theory of environment and areas of knowledge such as Islamic anthropology, so a contemporary 'Islamic science' must be reconstructed. The reconstruction of Islamic science involves taking science to the people: production of programmes of village science, participatory science, science for rural development, science for inner cities and so on. The reconstruction of Islamic science involves systematic and simultaneous work on at least eight levels. These levels include epistemology, methodology, history, policy, empirical work, institutions, education and science consciousness.
