The Maqasid Thought of Ibn ‘Ashur and Development of Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies: Searching for the Correlation of the Concept

Ibn ‘Ashur is a figure of Islamic thinker who is widely known as an expert commentator and world Maqasid figure. However, his thinking about maqasid as an approach to Islamic studies has not received much attention from researchers and academics. The article tries to reveal the root and correlation between the Interdisciplinary Islamic studies with Maqasid thought of Ibn ‘Ashur. This article is written as library research in which the author analyzes a thematic study of Maqasid as an approach to Islamic studies in four books written by Ibn ‘Ashur, for Searching the correlation of the concept to answer the problems in this study, among others; al-Tahrir wa al-Tanwir; Maqasid al-shari‘ah al-Islamiyyah, Alaysa al-Subh bi Qarib and Usul al-Nizam al-Ijtima’iy fi al-Islam. Meanwhile, secondary sources are taken from scientific books or journals that have the same topic of discussion as this research. This article finds a strong correlation between the Maqasid thoughts of Ibn ‘Ashur with interdisciplinary Islamic studies, in which in his four books the science of Maqasid is used as an approach in Islamic studies on three themes, namely Maqasid science in tafsir studies, educational thought and social society.