Islamic epistemology and its relations to scientific method in Islamic law of evidence

Islam as a comprehensive religion has put forth the idea regarding epistemology in its own framework. The discourse of sources of knowledge is a part of epistemology scope. Islam recognized four sources of knowledge consist of revelation, intuition/inspiration, rational and empirical method. The last (empirical method) relates closely to the scientific method which is a method of investigation in which a problem is first identified, and observations, experiments, or other relevant data are then used to construct or test hypotheses that purport to solve it. In Islamic law, circumstantial evidence is a kind of evidence which is applied and accepted in Islamic court proceeding despite some jurist did not strongly emphasize its reliability compare to confession and testimony of witnesses. This writing aims at putting forward the importance of circumstantial evidence in Islamic law through an epistemological perspective that has to do closely with the scientific method. This is the way how Islam appreciates and avails of the development of science and technology for enhancing justice as the main principle in Islamic law. � BEIESP.