The Roles of Islamic University in The Fourth Industrial Revolution Era (4TH IR)

Abstract

This paper sheds light on the shifting reality foreseen in the fourth Industrial Revolution (4th IR) era in which the blurring line between essences (physical, biological and digital) indeed complicates the truth to be pursued and this must be made apolitical and amoral. Maintaining the ultimate roles of Islamic university where the question of happiness, revivalism of Islamic intellectualism tradition and insan kamil mission become the main concerns, this paper is esteemed to refine the roles of Islamic university in its layers of practices resulted from the clear and sound Islamic epistemological understanding at optimizing the benefits and preventing the pitfalls of the 4th IR technological confluence that has been rooming into the higher learning education environment. The methodology of this qualitative study has focused on the analytical philosophy analysis (APA) research design where the critical interpretive synthesis was being conducted to generate data from randomly selected literature as the source of data. The findings are discussed in 4 key domains of roles of Islamic university which are restatement of philosophy of Islamic education, integrated curriculum design with pedagogy based on adab, strategized research activities and academic professionalism and leadership practices centring on principal virtues.