New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Hamid Parsania; Abolfazl Eghbali
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Discussions surrounding women, gender, and their social manifestations have historically posed significant challenges for the Islamic world. Various intellectual and social approaches - each grounded in distinct semantic systems - have addressed these issues from different perspectives. A macroscopic ...
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Discussions surrounding women, gender, and their social manifestations have historically posed significant challenges for the Islamic world. Various intellectual and social approaches - each grounded in distinct semantic systems - have addressed these issues from different perspectives. A macroscopic analysis reveals that two dominant semantic paradigms, Islam and modernity, underlie these approaches. The present study aims to examine these perspectives, analyze their underlying semantic systems, and conceptualize gender-based approaches within the framework of social worlds. This is an applied study, methodologically situated in the domain of qualitative research. The conceptual framework is based on the theory of social worlds, and the fundamental methodology is employed to explore the development of these discourses in the theoretical and socio-political spheres of Iranian society. According to the findings, key components of the Islamic theory of gender include gender essentialism, the social extension of gender, social systematization based on couplehood, and gender as an existential capacity. The epistemological foundations of this social world are rooted in Javaheri jurisprudence and transcendental wisdom, while its non-epistemological (cognitive) contexts include the social and political developments of the Constitutional Era and the Islamic Revolution of Iran. In contrast, the feminist theory of gender is characterized by concepts such as gender constructionism, transsexuality, gender fluidity, gender as a mechanism of domination, and the rejection of gender’s social extensions. Its epistemological contexts include Western feminist thought and the neo-religious and intellectual movements within Islamic societies, while its non-epistemological contexts in Iran are shaped by the legal inequalities between men and women and the political transformations of the 1970s.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
mohammad nezhadiran; Rozhan Hesamghazi
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This research aims to compare the concept of Westernization in the intellectual literature of Iranian intellectuals specifically focusing on Dariush Shaygan and Jalal Al-Ahmad to understand the root of the differences in their views. By analyzing their attitudes toward this concept, the research will ...
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This research aims to compare the concept of Westernization in the intellectual literature of Iranian intellectuals specifically focusing on Dariush Shaygan and Jalal Al-Ahmad to understand the root of the differences in their views. By analyzing their attitudes toward this concept, the research will explain the two distinct political and philosophical approaches that characterize Iranian intellectuals' responses to the dominance of Western culture and civilization in Iranian society, and evaluate and compare their strategies for addressing this situation. An analytical-comparative method has been employed in this research. By applying this approach, the study seeks to analyze the concept of Westernization in the intellectual literature of these two intellectuals and examine the relationship between their intellectual origins and intellectual frameworks, highlighting their fundamental distinctions. The main finding of this research indicates that the primary difference in the concept of Westernization between Al-Ahmad and Shaygan is rooted in their divergent philosophical and political approaches when examining the relationship between modern Western civilization and non-European civilizations. The general result reveals that Al-Ahmad's political and economic approach has led to a post-colonial interpretation of Westernization, while Shaygan's philosophical view, grounded in an ontological critique of modernity, has guided his perspectives toward post-modern attitudes.
Presenting an original critical discussion about the nature of the modern humanities and determining its relationship with religion
mohammad nezhadiran; rozhan hesam ghazi
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Al-Ahmad's radical critiques of the concept of Westernization due to the widespread popularity of various sections of Iranian society at the time of its introduction played an important role in the intellectual and political orientations of Iranian society. Research Findings1- Westernization is a reaction ...
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Al-Ahmad's radical critiques of the concept of Westernization due to the widespread popularity of various sections of Iranian society at the time of its introduction played an important role in the intellectual and political orientations of Iranian society. Research Findings1- Westernization is a reaction related to modernizationHis views entitled "Westernization" in its technological, economic and social dimensions should be considered as a reaction to the pattern of modernization that was being formed rapidly in the second Pahlavi era and regardless of its consequences. The strong dependence of this process on global capitalism and the prominent role of multinational companies in investing in Iran's domestic industries, along with the growing import of foreign products from oil revenues and the prevalence of consumerism in the urban lifestyle, was a phenomenon that many intellectuals of that period in various forms. It was criticized and Al-Ahmad was one of the pioneers in criticizing this modernization in this direction.2. Critical Westernization of Superficial ModernismThe dependent and accelerated modernization of the Pahlavi government was rooted in a superficial and ignorant modernism that dominated the thought and culture of the elites and constitutionalist and modernist intellectuals of Reza Shah's era and in the Ahmad's era by the formal education system, press and cultural magazines and even some new intellectuals and educated people. dominated. The modernism that prevailed during this period undoubtedly lacked philosophical depth or precise knowledge of the nature of modern culture and civilization, and for this reason it promoted imitation of the modern lifestyle as the main manifestation of modernity. He was involved in cultural and identity debates.3. Weakness of the positive aspects of the concept of westernizationThe lack of philosophical aspect and the emphasis on economic and political aspects of Al-Ahmad's critiques of the accelerated modernization and superficial modernism of the Pahlavi era in the context of the critique of the phenomenon of "Westernization" indicate if his superficial acquaintance with modern European civilization. Except for the strengthening of anti-Western political currents in the form of political and cultural anti-Westernism.
malek shojaei
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Traditionalism is a current of thought in the critique of modernity, founded by René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, and Dr. Seyed Hussner. This article Review and critique the traditionalists' views on "science" in Islamic civilization, emphasizing the work of Dr. Seyyed ...
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Traditionalism is a current of thought in the critique of modernity, founded by René Guénon, Ananda Coomaraswamy and Frithjof Schuon, and Dr. Seyed Hussner. This article Review and critique the traditionalists' views on "science" in Islamic civilization, emphasizing the work of Dr. Seyyed Hosein Nasr as the most traditionalist thinker in the field. Philosophy and history is science. by showing the close connection that has been extracted between Dr. Nasr's Notion of modernism and His Meta-philosophy and his understanding of the relationship between science and religion in Islamic civilization, to formulate Dr. Nasr's special epistemological Approache, which in this article is referred to as " "religious hermeneutics of nature."In the following, while analyzing the principles and accessories of this position, Nasr's strategy in the field of facing new science is critisize . at the final step of this paper Nasr's views on the relationship between science and religion and modernity and its civilizational implications are criticized.
mohammad irannezhad
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Growth ideological Islam has an important role in mobilizing the masses And led to the dominance of traditional Islam in Iran is political Islam And political and cultural consequences of this can be seen in the years after the Islamic Revolution. Has been criticized by some contemporary intellectuals. ...
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Growth ideological Islam has an important role in mobilizing the masses And led to the dominance of traditional Islam in Iran is political Islam And political and cultural consequences of this can be seen in the years after the Islamic Revolution. Has been criticized by some contemporary intellectuals. The method used in this study is a documentary-analytical method. The findings suggest that Daryush Shayegan is one of the most Iranian intellectuals the critic Ideological Islam. This process has seen his ideology tradition And believes that the tradition of ideology than with Eastern spirituality is lost And through the reproduction of tradition in a modern form of internal logic is accepted modernity without knowing it. Ideological traditions can not provide facilities for the production spirituality And purely political function will have to compete with modern ideologies. He sees ideology as false consciousness as false consciousness And believes that religion becomes ideology negative reaction to the collapse of the Eastern traditions in the face of the onslaught of secular rationality and modernity Myth busting. That the tradition has turned into a political tool for historical alienation And spiritual capacities for the sake of political mythology of the modern world is customary. Shayeganbelieves,Transform religion into ideology caused the collapse of the deep meanings of religions in the modern age.
somaye hamidi; beigom naseri; hossein farzanepour
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Knowing the issue of Iran's retardation in Qajar Era, intellectuals began to think about the causes of this, disadvantages of establishing state in Iran and considered its change a factor of advancement and booming in The West. Attempts to understanding renewal viewpoints in The West and imitating it ...
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Knowing the issue of Iran's retardation in Qajar Era, intellectuals began to think about the causes of this, disadvantages of establishing state in Iran and considered its change a factor of advancement and booming in The West. Attempts to understanding renewal viewpoints in The West and imitating it caused analyze and recognize thoughts of this group in relation to identity foundations. Some of them consider religion as the factor of retardation and decline of Iran's society against modernity and considered Islam as a disabled entity to present a noble pattern for change in political-social structure. Mostashar-Al-Doule is among the intellectuals of constitutional era and tries to adapt the modern sovereignty statements with content of Quran, and prove the modernity compatible with Islam. This paper tries to interpret and adapt the content with modern sovereignty statements based on one-word treaty. The achievement of present study indicates that the main objective of compiling one-word is attempt to present adaptation of Islam and Modernity along with native and religious content of modern sovereignty that is easy to understand based on Quran content, Islamic Sayings and focusing on comprehensive Islam Religion in relation to modern thought in The West. This research while rejecting dominant approaches of tis time, i.e. pre-constitutional era based on incompatibility of religion and modernity and utility exploitation of religion, renders a new representation of it.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
mahdi hoseinzadeh; alireza haddadi
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native science and its relation to religious science in recent decades has been the focus of Muslim scholars. According to some readings of native science, the pursuit of wisdom to science, all indigenous and historic.This approach usually taken as relativism and pluralism knowledge and in conflict with ...
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native science and its relation to religious science in recent decades has been the focus of Muslim scholars. According to some readings of native science, the pursuit of wisdom to science, all indigenous and historic.This approach usually taken as relativism and pluralism knowledge and in conflict with the principles of Islamic epistemology. Contrary to popular perception, relativism is not a unified whole and have varieties. Kachooyan is one of the scholars of Islamic methodology of human knowledge, which explain the historical nature of human and assert pluralism in humanities. This is reason to the accusation of radical relativism from some alternative streams in religious knowledge. The authors have tried to carefully distinguish between What is known as relativism, wise relativism and not acceptable relativism, and by explaining the views of the community of this Muslim thinker, to show that his ideas about native science, has no epistemological objections of fails types of relativism.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Qasem zaeri; Zeinab Aalami
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Imam Khomeini was the leader of the Islamic revolution in 1979. In the discoursive context of the historical encounter of the modernists and the religious with Sunnah (Tradition), Imam Khomeini established and invigorated the orientation of "Sunnah Revival" going beyond the orientations of "Refusal ...
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Imam Khomeini was the leader of the Islamic revolution in 1979. In the discoursive context of the historical encounter of the modernists and the religious with Sunnah (Tradition), Imam Khomeini established and invigorated the orientation of "Sunnah Revival" going beyond the orientations of "Refusal of Sunnah" and "Return to Sunnah" on the one hand, and "Repetition of Sunnah" on the other hand. Also, he went beyond the developmental dualism of "Tradition-Modernity" and with "Positive ignorance" of the West, pursued the logic of internal criticism of sunnah. Imam Khomeini as a religious man (either in the leadership position of a great political-social revolution or in the position of an ordinary person in daily life) acted in the multiplexed context of Sunnah. This context comprises "religious tradition" and "life tradition". The former is dividable into "Divine-genetic tradition (SUNNAT-ALLAH)" and "Juridical-legislative tradition (FIQH)" and the latter is dividable into "the Muslim life tradition" (with subdivisions of "historical tradition of the beginning of Islamic era" and "the Muslim social tradition") and " the non-Muslim life tradition" (with subdivisions of "archaic tradition and pre-Islamic religions" and "the Arrogants tradition (MUSTAKBERIN)" ). Such various conceptions of Sunnah permit him to consider modernity not as a self-determining matter but as a variety of life tradition and to overcome the consequent problems of theoretical and practical involvement with modernity. By this multiplexed conceptions, Furthermore, he is able to criticize and reconstruct some aspects of Sunnah with reliance to the other aspects asymmetrically.
