Presenting an original critical discussion about the nature of the modern humanities and determining its relationship with religion
Sayyed Mohammad Taghi Movahhed Abtahi
Abstract
Bijan Abdul Karimi is one of the Iranian Muslim thinkers who has many criticisms of the idea of religious science. These critiques are of two types: critiques based on continental philosophy, which Abdul Karimi is philosophically affiliated with, and critiques that are more in line with analytical philosophy. ...
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Bijan Abdul Karimi is one of the Iranian Muslim thinkers who has many criticisms of the idea of religious science. These critiques are of two types: critiques based on continental philosophy, which Abdul Karimi is philosophically affiliated with, and critiques that are more in line with analytical philosophy. In this article, his criticism about the ambiguity of the meaning of the idea of religious science is proposed and evaluated. Abdul Karimi believes that: 1. The abundance of views about the concept of religious science shows that this idea was not based on a clear knowledge system (Episteme) but based on suspicion (Doxa); 2. The analysis of the meanings of science and religion shows that the idea of religious science is a paradoxical concept resulting from the mixing of different levels of consciousness. In this article, the brief history of religious science is shown and it is revealed that 1. Some of the definitions presented by Abdul Karimi are not related to the flow of religious science, and 2. the idea of religious science is not a paradox and does not mix levels of knowledge.
