Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Yahya Bouzarinejad; Ghasem Khosravi
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Classification of the Sciences has always been an essential part of the Islamic scientific thought. This was due to the significant role of science in the Islamic culture and as well as the development of various scientific traditions in this civilization.Philosophy of science, today, discusses the classification ...
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Classification of the Sciences has always been an essential part of the Islamic scientific thought. This was due to the significant role of science in the Islamic culture and as well as the development of various scientific traditions in this civilization.Philosophy of science, today, discusses the classification of sciences in which methods, subject matters, and goals of the science are studied. In addition, the discipline takes into consideration the scientific principles and foundations involved.In order to study this issue from the epistemological viewpoint it is necessary to pay attention to two problems: first are the intellectual foundations of its classifier and second is the relative realization of this classification in the scholarly milieu. This was achieved in regards to the religious sciences and their co-existence with secular sciences since a long time ago, but this was questioned in recent centuries after the introduction of modern epistemology.This paper examines three types of the important classifications in Islamic civilization proposed by Farabi, Ghazzali and Nasir Al-din Tusi and studies the formation of this historical experience, which is a religious understanding of all sciences and epistemological compatibility between religious and secular sciences.
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.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Rasool Sadeghi
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Ibn Khaldun has played a major role in the shaping of pre-modern population theories. He has proposed some important issues and perspectives on the interaction of population dynamics and development. Thus, this paper attempts to explore Ibn Khaldun’s demographic perspectives and identify his approach ...
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Ibn Khaldun has played a major role in the shaping of pre-modern population theories. He has proposed some important issues and perspectives on the interaction of population dynamics and development. Thus, this paper attempts to explore Ibn Khaldun’s demographic perspectives and identify his approach to population and development interrelationship. The results indicate that Ibn Khaldun has introduced the dimensions and components of population growth in the context of demographic transition, and also he has discussed on the dynamic interaction of population and development. According to Ibn Khaldun, positive or negative impact of population growth on development and welfare depends on population structure and its quality on the one hand, and infrastructure conditions of society on the other hand. Therefore, Ibn Khaldun’s theory of development is based on his demographic theory. In addition, Ibn Khaldun has applied a multidimensional approach to analyze the relations between population and development. He has explained the mechanism of this relationship and its results in the connection with an array of environmental factors.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Mohammad Hosein Badamchi; Hamid Parsania
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The principal problem in studying Farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: Greek political philosophy, Iranshahri (Persian Polis) pre-Islamic political thoughts, and Islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s ...
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The principal problem in studying Farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: Greek political philosophy, Iranshahri (Persian Polis) pre-Islamic political thoughts, and Islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: Greek Political Philosophy/ Fighi Shari’at-Name/ Iranian Siasat-Name. This article dividing the overall framework of presented readings of Farabi (offers by multiple Western or Iranian orientalists) into three main positions: Describing Status (source discovering questions)/ Interpretation Status (identity discovering questions)/ Inference Status (Civilization questions); assuming the great importance of the second status, claims the principal issue in interpretation and identity discovering of Farabi’s Thought is the question of “the way of gathering Reason-Revelation or Islam-Greek philosophy together” and Farabi’s special answer to it. Therefore, criticizing some typologies presented to categorize the multiple interpretations, the authors hold the fourfold category (non-Muslim philosopher/ non-philosopher theologian, non-Muslim Nationalist/ founder of Islamic Philosophy) in which three former ones have established on philosophical refusal of making Rationality compatible with Religion, and the latter last one stands on possibility of making philosophy compatible with Islam. Ultimately evaluating Seyed Javad Tabatabaee’s treatises with this framework, reveals that we meet more than one Farabi in his works. By and large Tabatabaee, depending on the content and context of the debates, has introduced one of the first three Farabi types, evolving three contradictory inferences about Farabi’s intellectual role in Islamic civilization: (leading to) temporary appearance of Islamic Humanistic Age/ gradually deterioration of political thought in Iran/ resistance and preserving Iran-state against Ideological pan-Arabism). Three contradictory interpretations and inferences which eventually degrades the academic credit of Tabatabaee’s works and leads to diverging the unity of his reading of Farabi.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Fariba Shayegan
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There are a variety of definitions about social security and threats indicating a lack of consensus on this issue, and not considering the impact of social conditions of different countries. Thus, although in a scientific study considering other viewpoints can be useful, in order to be practical, we ...
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There are a variety of definitions about social security and threats indicating a lack of consensus on this issue, and not considering the impact of social conditions of different countries. Thus, although in a scientific study considering other viewpoints can be useful, in order to be practical, we should indigenously note indigenous conditions and domestic scholar’s comments. Based on this idea, this study investigated one of the Iranian Muslim scholars’ viewpoint namely Ayatollah Khamenei about social security threats which are conceived to be highly influenced by local conditions. In this study a qualitative method and content analysis has been used to refer to all statements of the Supreme Leader since the beginning of his inauguration (1989) till 2011 and the threats were extracted and classified. Then a number of 36 country’s military and security experts confirmed these conceptual threats. The results revealed that social security threats in Iran from the viewpoint of the Supreme Leader includes creating intrigue and turmoil, threatening and intimidation, enemy propaganda, creating doubt in the beliefs of youth, creating religious division, interference of the enemies in the internal affairs of the country, ethical and financial corruption, ethnic division, breaking the law, insecurity of social environment, drug abuse and addiction in society and, finally, youth unemployment.
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
Iman Erfanmanesh; Gholamreza Jamshidiha
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This article tries to investigate the range and some features of scientific realism from the perspectives advocated by Sayyid Jamāl ad-Din Asad Ābādi. It applies grounded theory, documentary research method, and some interpretative and exploratory views. Sayyid Jamāl has tried to reveal the capacity ...
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This article tries to investigate the range and some features of scientific realism from the perspectives advocated by Sayyid Jamāl ad-Din Asad Ābādi. It applies grounded theory, documentary research method, and some interpretative and exploratory views. Sayyid Jamāl has tried to reveal the capacity of religious knowledge including modern world, using hermeneutics insight and Qurān’s concepts reason, knowledge, and Jihād in the Companionship of knowledge and religion is one of his epistemological principles. To Sayyid Jamāl, the necessity of practical utility of Islamic knowledge and Muslims’ attention to the other scientific approaches, as positivistic methods, can play a remarkable role for reinforcing the scientific dimension of Islamic countries, as well as reviving Islamic civilization. In the light of Sayyid Jamāl’s methodological and epistemological logic, it seems that a recommendation to adopt paradigmatic axioms of the scientific realism can be a useful way to apply religious knowledge and/or Quranic knowledge , in addition of some modern scientific and empirical methods. Furthermore, the pragmatic manner and praxis (a combination of belief and Jihād) is among the practical features of Sayyid Jamāl’s social Knowledge
Rereading and interpreting the ideas of leading Muslim thinkers
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Allameh Tabatabai is one of the great Islamic thinkers who proposed Etebariat(agreements) theory and made a great contribution to the development of epistemology. In particular, this involvement in the areas of humanities and social philosophy is noticeable. He discusses the social Etebariat(social agreements), ...
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Allameh Tabatabai is one of the great Islamic thinkers who proposed Etebariat(agreements) theory and made a great contribution to the development of epistemology. In particular, this involvement in the areas of humanities and social philosophy is noticeable. He discusses the social Etebariat(social agreements), which deal with the study of concepts and categories that are familiar in the field of social philosophy. Thus, social issues are debated from the Allameh Tabatabai’s viewpointType text or a website address or translate a document.CancelTranslate from: Persian. Consequently the fundamental issue focused in the present paper is “paying attention to the theory of Etebariat suggested by Allameh Tabatabai and highly debated among Muslim social thinkers. Particularly, the paper aims to address the question “what is Allameh Tabatabai’s view on the explanation of social life?”
