Studying Abu Rayhan’s Viewpoint toward the Nature of Science

Abstract

This paper aimed at studying Abu Rayhan viewpoints toward the nature of science
based on today’s definitions. Since he is one of the Muslim scholars who has some innovations
in different sciences, his position toward the "first order" science will be studied and then, his
position toward the second order science will be under study. The methodology used in this
paper is based on the definition of nature of science provided by National Council Science
Technology Education in the project 2061. The data needed for this paper was collected by
library note-taking and was analyzed in a descriptive-analytic way.