Makalah ini bertujuan mengenal pasti elemen-elemen asas dalam falsafah sains Ibn al-Haytham dan menganalisisnya dari sudut teori ilmu pengetahuan Islam. Perbincangan mengenai teori ilmu pengetahuan sering diperdebatkan dalam falsafah sains masa kini. Tambahan pula, falsafah sains moden pada hari ini berpandukan falsafah logical-positivism yang secara lazimnya hanya mementingkan data yang boleh dicerap oleh deria dan rasional pada akal. Namun, sebagai sarjana Muslim terawal yang memperkenalkan pemikiran saintifik, adakah elemen-elemen asas pemikiran saintifik Ibn al-Haytham sama seperti falsafah logical-positivism itu? Bagaimanakah pula pandangan Islam terhadap pemikiran saintifik beliau? Oleh itu, makalah ini menggunakan kaedah analisis kandungan terhadap beberapa karya Ibn al-Haytham untuk menjawab persoalan-persoalan tersebut. Perbincangan dalam makalah ini disusun dalam tiga bahagian. Pertama, perbincangan mengenai keperluan falsafah sains yang bersepadu. Kedua, pengenal pastian elemen-elemen asas pemikiran saintifik Ibn al-Haytham. Ketiga, penganalisisan dari konteks teori ilmu pengetahuan Islam dan Barat. Hasilnya, makalah ini mendapati empat elemen asas iaitu penggunaan pancaindera, akal, keupayaan intuisi dan pegangan kepada sunnatullah alam terkandung dalam falsafah sains Ibn al-Haytham. Dapat disimpulkan bahawa kesemua elemen ini berada pada landasan epistemologi Islam.

This paper aims to identify the underlying elements in Ibn al-Haytham philosophy of science and to analyze it from the Islamic theory of knowledge views. The discourses about the theory of knowledge often debate in contemporary philosophy of science. Moreover, the modern philosophy of science today is based on the logical-positivism philosophy which concerned with the data that may be perceived by the sensations. However, as a Muslim scholar who is the earliest to introduce the scientific thought, are there any similarities between the elements of the scientific view of Ibn al-Haytham and the philosophy of logical-positivism? What about the prospect of Islam on his scientific thought? Thus, with the aid of content analysis upon some of Ibn al-Haytham’s works, this paper try to seek the answers. The discussion in this paper is arranged in three parts, i.e. first, the discourse on the demands of integrated philosophy of science; second, the identification of Ibn al-Haytham’s fundamental elements in his scientific thought; and third, the analysis from the perspective of Islamic and Western theory of knowledge. As the result, this paper identifies four fundamental elements, i.e. the senses, the intellect, the intuition and the laws of nature which embodied in the Ibn al-Haytham philosophy of science. It can be concluded that all these elements are compatible with the Islamic epistemology.