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ajiss-312	Chak, Farhan Mujahid	Critiquing the Modern Western Theory of Knowledge and Insights into a Qur’anic Epistemology	2012.0	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9257	421	55	While acknowledging their fallibility, they still seek true knowledge without commenting on whether such knowledge exists because only human beings are capable of the kinds of cognition required to build an airplane … to write Hamlet or com- pose a symphony … how is it that we are able to engage in such sophisti- cated thought and arrive at the capacious knowledge that we use to direct both our everyday activities and our momentous achievements like flying to the moon?25 This perplexing paradox, along with being non-committal as to whether knowl- edge is possible leads, at best, to the attainment of knowledge being plausible. To put this in perspective, the development of the modern western theory of knowledge is, principally, the unseemly consequence of the eighteenth- century Age of Enlightenment, in which the quest to achieve true knowledge replaced God with science.5 This new deity also had a sole offspring: the 2 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:4 ajiss294_ajiss 8/14/2012 12:42 PM	cache/ajiss-312.pdf	txt/ajiss-312.txt