DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE TREASURES OF ISLAMIC SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

Abstract

Currently, among Muslims there are various styles of schools of Islamicthought. The emergence of these various schools is a logical consequence of theprocess of understanding the main texts in the sources of Islamic law, namelythe Al-Qur'an and As-Sunah (hadith) where there are rigid understandings oftexts that do not provide room for discussion in them, as well as texts that loosetext in the form of conjecture, which is possible to be interpreted in variousways. Thus, this article aims to provide a description of various schools ofIslamic thought which are divided into four major schools. This article waswritten with a qualitative descriptive approach using the literature study method.From the results of the discussion, it is known that there are four major poles inIslamic thought, including Kalam, Philosophy, Fiqh and Sufism. These fourmajor schools then have their own principles, methodologies and sources ofinterpretation, even though they all have the same basic foundation, namely theAl-Qur'an and As-Sunnah.