Gustavo Mustafa is opposed to this idea.

Islam is concerned with absolute truth and the premise that there is a divine presence. However, science is NOT designed for the purpose of proving or disproving the existence of God. If Islamic studies is only a mere collection of naturalistic observations and field research anthologies about the norms of Muslim majority societies both past and present, the rehashing of classical jurisprudence using modern social science jargon to sound credible to Western academics, and only involved in the ethnocentric study of Islam through a Middle Eastern gaze, then Islamic studies as a new discipline has a long way