Intellectual, historical and civilizational traditions of Muslim social thought
sina sheikhi; Hossein KACHOYAN
Abstract
Saadi's Gulistan, which contains the highest number of Persian proverbs of any single work and served as a primary educational text in Iranian maktabkhaneh (traditional schools) for centuries, played a crucial role in shaping this ethic. This article, using a grounded theory method, examined Saadi's ...
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Saadi's Gulistan, which contains the highest number of Persian proverbs of any single work and served as a primary educational text in Iranian maktabkhaneh (traditional schools) for centuries, played a crucial role in shaping this ethic. This article, using a grounded theory method, examined Saadi's social ethics in his book Gulistan, arriving at the concept of "social service" as the ethical type. Saadi must be considered one of the greatest architects of an "ethics of service" in Persian literature. With rare skill, he presented mystical and ethical concepts in both prose and poetry, offering them to the general public in a simple and enduring manner.The mystical-ethical perspective on "serving the people" (khedmat-e khalq), evident in Saadi's works and the Islamic-Iranian mystical tradition, is not merely a spiritual teaching; it has had profound social and ethical impacts on the structure and dynamics of society. These impacts can be outlined in three main areas: strengthening social solidarity, reducing inequality and injustice, and shaping the collective spirit of society.Service to the people, which has played an important role in Iranian history, has been accompanied by diverse and multifaceted cultural and structural developments, with endowments (waqf), Sufi lodges (khanqah), and religious alms (khums and zakat) being prominent examples. In Saadi's thought, serving the people creates a solidarity among members of society that is distinct from the superficial and self-interested solidarities of the modern world.
GholamReza Jamshidiha; Sina Sheikhi
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Major method in philosophy and humanities until the middle of the nineteenth century was the causal method of explanation. With Hegel's new design of history, the dialectical method found a special place in the humanities. Hegel used dialectics with developments in the analysis of history and social ...
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Major method in philosophy and humanities until the middle of the nineteenth century was the causal method of explanation. With Hegel's new design of history, the dialectical method found a special place in the humanities. Hegel used dialectics with developments in the analysis of history and social events, using Greek dialectical principles that stopped at the field of thought. Marx also took a materialist approach to the dialectical analysis of history. Shariati was one of the first to introduce this method in Iran. Our aim in this article is to determine the extent of Shariati's imitation and innovation in the dialectical sense. Therefore, in a documentary way, we have analyzed the dialectical concept in his thought. According to Shariati, Aristotle's logic is mental and abstract. Shariati considers the application of this method in the Islamic world as an obstacle to scientific developments. Despite Maxr influence on Shariati his system of thought, his method differs significantly from the Marxist and Hegelian dialectics. Shariati opposes both dialectics on the basis of consciousness and materialism on the basis of it. In addition, he separates the second multiplication of dialectics and defines it outside the first multiplication, and does not consider the third multiplication as the sum of theses and antitheses. In Shariati's analysis of history and man, the first and second multiplications of dialectics are the flow of good and evil, which, in contrast to each other, transform history and man, and finally, with the victory of the right current, this struggle reaches its end.
