New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
mahdi nasiri; Hamzeh Khademali
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This study explores Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shah Abadi’s sociological interpretation of the Qur’anic verse of I‘tisam (Qur’an 3:103) as the foundation for a model of social order in Islamic societies. Shah Abadi introduces the concept of the “social heart” as a framework ...
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This study explores Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Shah Abadi’s sociological interpretation of the Qur’anic verse of I‘tisam (Qur’an 3:103) as the foundation for a model of social order in Islamic societies. Shah Abadi introduces the concept of the “social heart” as a framework for reconstructing collective identity and cohesion among believers. Using a qualitative, interpretive-analytical method and drawing upon his seminal work Shazrat al-Ma‘arif, the research demonstrates that the “social heart” consists of three interrelated components: warm social interactions, fraternal relations grounded in faith, and Qur’anic norms. The findings highlight Shah Abadi’s critique of fragmented and cold social relations, emphasizing that only through affective and epistemic bonds among believers can the community become a vessel for divine guidance. This model not only provides a theoretical framework for analyzing solidarity and collective identity in Islamic society but also offers practical implications for strengthening social ties and designing cultural interventions in contemporary Muslim societies.The analysis shows that Shah Abadi’s concept of the social heart provides both a theoretical and practical framework for Islamic sociology. It bridges Qur’anic exegesis with sociological concerns about solidarity, identity, and norm formation. The model offers practical guidance for contemporary Muslim societies facing challenges of fragmentation and cultural domination. It can serve as a basis for designing interventions that strengthen faith-based ties and reconstruct social order
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.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
ebrahim khani
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This article seeks to demonstrate the efficacy of the "Four Journeys" model as an innovative methodological framework in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of the social sciences, using a research discourse approach. To this end, the concept of the Four Journeys in Islamic mysticism is first ...
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This article seeks to demonstrate the efficacy of the "Four Journeys" model as an innovative methodological framework in the philosophy of science and the philosophy of the social sciences, using a research discourse approach. To this end, the concept of the Four Journeys in Islamic mysticism is first clarified, and it is then argued that the model represents a comprehensive cognitive framework, not confined solely to mystical or spiritual discourse. This claim is substantiated by analyzing and critiquing various types of rational action, showing that forms of analytical, essential, universal, descriptive, and synthetic reasoning align methodologically with the four stages of the Four Journeys. As such, the "Four Journeys of Thought" model may be regarded as a novel epistemological theory. Subsequently, in order to demonstrate the model’s applicability within the philosophy of the social sciences, several prominent sociological theories are re-evaluated through the lens of the Four Journeys. Despite the significant methodological and theoretical differences among these thinkers, their intellectual trajectories can be mapped onto the logic of the Four Journeys, thereby enabling a unified framework for their comparison and interpretation.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi
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What we call science encompasses various contexts. The distinction between Islamic and Western social sciences shows itself in various contexts of science. To fully comprehend these differences, it is essential to systematically examine all scientific contexts, as neglecting any area can hinder the recognition ...
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What we call science encompasses various contexts. The distinction between Islamic and Western social sciences shows itself in various contexts of science. To fully comprehend these differences, it is essential to systematically examine all scientific contexts, as neglecting any area can hinder the recognition of these distinctions and obstruct alternative frameworks for scientific development. In the realm of social sciences, at least 12 contexts can be identified through reflection and induction: description, discovery, justification (methodology), hypothesis acceptance, understanding, explanation, prediction, object of study, application, normativity, and concepts. This article focuses specifically on the conceptual context to explore the differences between Islamic and Western social sciences in this domain. The findings suggest that the divergence in conceptual approaches stems from foundational differences in worldview. Concepts serve as lenses through which the world is understood, and each scientific tradition organizes its theories and representations of reality based on these conceptual frameworks. In Islamic social sciences, concepts are not reconstructed; rather, they are imbued with intrinsic value rooted in Islamic Thought. Understanding these concepts in contrast to their Western counterparts necessitates Ijtihad (independent reasoning), as the process involves uncovering meanings that align with Islamic principles.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Hoda Sadeghzadegan,; Nafiseh Azarbayejani
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ender justice and the realization of women's rights are important topics that have been discussed for many years, but there are still many unclear points in the Islamic approach to it, from the field of opinion to practical forms. Therefore, the present study decided to investigate this issue in the ...
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ender justice and the realization of women's rights are important topics that have been discussed for many years, but there are still many unclear points in the Islamic approach to it, from the field of opinion to practical forms. Therefore, the present study decided to investigate this issue in the collection of Ayatollah Khamenei's statements and messages from the beginning of his leadership until 2025 with the help of Ijtihadi method and coding technique. In this method, the base code is extracted based on the examination of the types of verbal meanings of the statements, and then in the categorization stage, the ratio between the codes (absolute and restricted, general and specific, etc. , the context and the audience of the speech is examined). In the intellectual system of leadership, justice is expressed as a combination of equal rights of men and women based on human commonalities, and inequality based on gender differences; In this intellectual system, some examples of equal and different rights of women with men and examples of oppression of women and redefinition of some examples of rights and their details, as well as an examination of the ratio between different rights of women are observed. In the meantime, the right to dignity, which includes rights such as chaste life and ideal life and is in two categories, family and social, is at the top of women's rights. After going through these theoretical prerequisites in the intellectual system of leadership, the present research has extracted a political model in several dimensions of characteristics (including a model based on Islamic goals and rationality, continuous, deep and far from haste and based on an aggressive attitude towards the West and a systemic attitude). explained the main actors of realizing gender justice policy (women as the central actors), the legal priorities of women and strategies (including culture building, reforming and drafting protective and strict laws and the formation of the women's defense movement with chastity and correct slogans) Considering this model, policies related to gender justice can be reviewed, modified and formulated.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Erfan Goleyni Hasanipor; Ebrahim Rastiyan
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ccording to many fundamental issues of social sciences, which have arisen around the construction - reality dichotomy, we see a wide range of theories about the nature of social structure. On the one hand, realists such as Durkheim consider the social structure as an objective reality that dominates ...
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ccording to many fundamental issues of social sciences, which have arisen around the construction - reality dichotomy, we see a wide range of theories about the nature of social structure. On the one hand, realists such as Durkheim consider the social structure as an objective reality that dominates human agency, which must be discovered under certain criteria. On the other hand, constructionists like Berger and Luckman considered the social structure to be a social construction that humans have created according to their own contract. In the research tradition of Islamic philosophy, M.H Tabatabaei has also presented a theory titled "Etebarian " to understand the nature of the social structure, which explains this issue despite the emphasis on the validity (neither discovery nor construction). In the current research, based on the analytical - descriptive method, we will first explain the epistemological foundations of Durkheim's view, as the most prominent representative of realism, and the view of Berger and Luckman, as the most prominent representatives of constructivism. In the end, by using the comparative approach and benefiting from the capacity of Tabatabaei's theory of Etebarian, we will show that social structures are post-social credits that during a gradual process and by determining a certain range of roles and social relations, controls and manages the actions of human agencies in the direction of their desired goals and ends.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh PourYazdanParast; Hamid reza saremi; Seyyed Ali Safavi
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The ideal city is a benchmark for revealing the shortcomings and inadequacies of the current situation in order to criticize the established system and move towards the ideal situation. Ideal city is a title for a terrestrial society that has a way to a high horizon while solving current human concerns. ...
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The ideal city is a benchmark for revealing the shortcomings and inadequacies of the current situation in order to criticize the established system and move towards the ideal situation. Ideal city is a title for a terrestrial society that has a way to a high horizon while solving current human concerns. Therefore, explaining this city with a purely secular outlook is not possible. Amir Mominan Imam Ali's (PBUH) opinions arise from two criteria: reason and Shariah, and from this point of view, we can look at the realities in the world, find many of the facts, and finally cure pain without expecting the negative consequences and damages of current views. The purpose of this study is to consider human relations, specifically social and economic relations, as one of the main three dimensions of the ideal city based on eight previously extracted bases. Therefore, by collecting data and analyzing their contents, we will examine the viewpoint of Imam Ali (PBUH) on the characteristics of human relations in the ideal city. For this purpose, the research method is a combination of text and content analysis and meta-analysis methods. Finally, the features of each of the eight main principles in the ideal city, including Tawḥīd and God-centeredness, justice, life, human dignity, security, original human freedom, order, and ownership in the social and economic relations of the city's residents, have been presented. This research is a step in the direction of compiling the theoretical foundations of the Islamic city and documenting the characteristics and attributes of the Islamic city based on the words of the infallible imams (PBUH). The results show that the destination and goal of human communication is Divinity and Afterlifeism, and human rights are defined along with the divine rights and the protection of God's rights is done through the protection of people's rights.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Hossein Bostan
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Causal explanations in social sciences consist of three main elements: independent variable, dependent variable, and the relationship between them, which is realized in the form of a causal mechanism. The explanation of the causal mechanisms depends on the identification and analysis of mediating factors ...
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Causal explanations in social sciences consist of three main elements: independent variable, dependent variable, and the relationship between them, which is realized in the form of a causal mechanism. The explanation of the causal mechanisms depends on the identification and analysis of mediating factors between the independent variable and the dependent variable, and based on this, the causal mechanisms refer to the processes during which various types of causal influences are formed between the independent variable, mediating factors, and the dependent variable. In this article, by searching the verses of the Holy Quran and using conventional qualitative content analysis techniques, an attempt has been made to formulate a comprehensive framework of mediating factors between worldliness and sin, including action, motivational and structural variable, a framework that can be used to explain many social harms by connecting independent and dependent variables. In this regard, more than 600 different factors were coded in the Holy Quran, which, after removing duplicates, were separated into two categories of mediating factors: factors whose effects are specific to a specific sin, and factors whose scope is inclusive of various sins. Due to the extensiveness of the first category factors, they were avoided in this discussion and only the second class factors were focused on, which included about 150 mediating factors.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Seyed Hadi Sajedi
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The expression of various pleasant and unpleasant emotions is common among humans. In the Holy Quran, Allah expresses different feelings, such as pleasure, anger, and love, towards specific individuals or human actions. Unlike human emotional expressions that result from internal passivity, divine expressions ...
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The expression of various pleasant and unpleasant emotions is common among humans. In the Holy Quran, Allah expresses different feelings, such as pleasure, anger, and love, towards specific individuals or human actions. Unlike human emotional expressions that result from internal passivity, divine expressions in the Quran are not derived from any passivity, but aim to guide humans and provide a social action model for believers. Using intellectual analysis, this study seeks to extract a system of divine emotional expressions to serve as a model for believers' social actions. It introduces a comprehensive classification of emotions expressed in the Holy Quran as pleasant or unpleasant. Using Max Weber's fourfold model, the article argues that none of the traditional, affectual, value- rational, or means-end rational actions represent the social action of a believer. It concludes that the social action of a believer should be considered as "wert rational action based on transcendent rationality" with its unique characteristics.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Hadi Mousavi
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Social knowledge, which was formed in the Islamic era and is known as practical wisdom in an important part, is a system of knowledge that provides special laws, theories and concepts for social knowledge. Knowing these elements can be the way to understand the language of this knowledge. Among these ...
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Social knowledge, which was formed in the Islamic era and is known as practical wisdom in an important part, is a system of knowledge that provides special laws, theories and concepts for social knowledge. Knowing these elements can be the way to understand the language of this knowledge. Among these theories, there are many interpretations of the original under the title of "composition" which has been interpreted with different theories. Composition as a metaphysical principle has the ability to interpret various natural and unnatural components and elements. An example of these composition is formed in the human world under the title of society. In this regard, with an analytical-historical view, we have reread the formation process of various interpretations of the theory of composition regarding social reality, and finally, an innovative point of view in explaining what society is by using the united composition of matter and form in theoretical wisdom and the concrete composition of matter and form in The strategy is presented. As a result, its concrete combination will be an interpretation of the principle of composition, which is responsible for explaining the identity of the society. Finally, the general system that can express the concepts and ideas of social sciences of the Islamic period will be the practical strategy of that period.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
gholamali soleimani
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What is the correlation between metaphysics and politics? Is it possible to identify metaphysical underpinnings that could assist in elucidating the essence of political matters, or does politics, in its contemporary sense, lack philosophical, theoretical, or metaphysical foundations? The purpose of ...
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What is the correlation between metaphysics and politics? Is it possible to identify metaphysical underpinnings that could assist in elucidating the essence of political matters, or does politics, in its contemporary sense, lack philosophical, theoretical, or metaphysical foundations? The purpose of this research is to provide an answer to the question of what metaphysical or theoretical foundations Islam places on politics. Before we can address this crucial inquiry, we must first examine the fundamental categories of knowledge that exist within the Muslim faith: theoretical wisdom and practical wisdom. Through an analysis of the knowledge process and the interconnection between philosophy and theology, it is possible to deduce that “philosophy in the specific sense” or “theology” serves as the primary origin of metaphysical propositions that influence politics within the Islamic worldview. These propositions have endowed politics with an entirely new essence.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
ebrahim khani
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The purpose of this article is to explain the exact meaning of the ontology of social life and to prove the necessity and advantage of placing this issue in the system of Islamic wisdom topics for a better understanding of the arc of descent and ascent of creation from a philosophical perspective.For ...
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The purpose of this article is to explain the exact meaning of the ontology of social life and to prove the necessity and advantage of placing this issue in the system of Islamic wisdom topics for a better understanding of the arc of descent and ascent of creation from a philosophical perspective.For this purpose and with a philosophical-analytical method, firstly, the possibility of locating this problem based on the subject and method of Islamic philosophy is analyzed and investigated, and it is shown that the "ontology" of any subject, including social life, is within the scope of the problems of the first philosophy .Therefore beyond a possibility, it is the duty of a philosopher to declare a position about society from an ontological point of view. Also, the importance and urgency of this topic has been discussed from the perspective of its influence in determining macro-methodological patterns in social sciences .In the final step, by explaining the ontological position of social lives in the arc of descent and ascent of creation, it becomes clear that the knowledge of these two arcs of creation without the ontology of social lives has major philosophical flaws, and on the other hand, by placing this topic in the system of ruling rules, we can get new readings of some of The ruling rules were achieved with the approach of collective authenticity. One of the advantages of this approach is the possibility of explaining the essential movement of social life and dealing with the issue of philosophy of history in the text of philosophical discussions
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Mohsen Labkhandagh
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Under the transcendental wisdom and relying on "Sadra's cultural theory", bace on logical argument method it is possible to explain the relationship between culture and the world of nature under the divine sovereignty, and provide a model for explaining cultural developments from this path. Based on ...
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Under the transcendental wisdom and relying on "Sadra's cultural theory", bace on logical argument method it is possible to explain the relationship between culture and the world of nature under the divine sovereignty, and provide a model for explaining cultural developments from this path. Based on "Sadrai's cultural theory", culture is a Semantic substance, and therefore, in explaining the dimensions of the relationship between culture and nature, we seek to answer the question of what role the relationship between man, society and nature will play in Semantic blocking or opening for societies and the formation of different cultures, and how these changes in meaning are reflected in the world of nature.This theoretical path will clarify that the impact of culture on the natural world can be divided into two types: "involuntary" and "conscious and accompanied by the intention and will of humans" and can be examined under the title "the shadow of the natural world on culture"."The formative and involuntary reflection of the world of nature in cultures" can be explained in three chapters: "The expression and concealment of meaning by the world of nature in relation to culture", "The practical wrath and seal of the world of nature in relation to culture" and "The extension of climate in culture". "Conscious reproduction of the world of nature in the context of culture" is explained under the two headings of "interpretation and symbolization(imeaning inspired by the world of nature)" and "cultural reproduction of perceptible images adapted from the world of nature(giving form to meanings)"The changes created by culture in the world of nature can also be examined under the title "shadow of culture on the world of nature" and under the two titles "reflection of culture in the interior of nature" and "reflection of culture in the body of nature".
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
hossein gholipour; Morteza javanali azar; Seyed Mojtaba Emami
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The researches carried out in the field of "Science Policy" sometimes have an experimental method and have explored and reported the relationship between variables. Sometimes they have a theoretical method and based on intellectual foundations, they have given answers to questions in the field of science ...
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The researches carried out in the field of "Science Policy" sometimes have an experimental method and have explored and reported the relationship between variables. Sometimes they have a theoretical method and based on intellectual foundations, they have given answers to questions in the field of science policy. In the meantime, the examination of Islamic thought regarding science is a subject that requires scientific analysis. Islamic thought, while emphasizing a lot on science, has a special view on it. Therefore, the basic problem is, how is science formulated in Islamic thought? To be the basis of science policy in the country. In this research, based on the opinions of three thinkers (Imam Khomeini, Martyr Motahari and Ayatollah Khamenei) and using the method of thematic analysis with inductive-deductive approach, First, it was tried to formulate the views of each of these thinkers, and finally, through their collective reading, an Islamic formulation of science was obtained. Presenting the same epistemological view of science, Multi-level knowing it, Emphasizing the independence, self-sufficiency and Creating authority of science as the goal of science, which leads to the drawing of "intellectual and scientific reference", "strong economic system" and "honorable social political system" as the dimensions of science in social life, Gender free in science education, considering science to be noble and not handing it over completely to market relations, and holding the religious government responsible for science, emphasizing the ethics of science and promoting the duality of education and Self-purification, and finally believing in maximum communication in scientific relationships and science placeless, There are some concepts and common points of thinkers who have created the Islamic formulation of science.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Qasem Zaeri; ali Eskandari Naddaf
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In the last two decades, there has been a thriving debate on the possibility or nature of "native science" in the general field of humanities in Iran. The status of "social science" in Iran is a part of these discussions, and "sociologists" themselves have been and are part of the localization debate. ...
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In the last two decades, there has been a thriving debate on the possibility or nature of "native science" in the general field of humanities in Iran. The status of "social science" in Iran is a part of these discussions, and "sociologists" themselves have been and are part of the localization debate. This article refers to the opinions and opinions of a group of Iranian social science professors and experts in the aforementioned time frame, to categorize the opinions of the supporters and opponents of indigenous social science in Iran. The article shows that at least three main points can be identified in the discussions of indigenous social science in Iran: the positivist perspective, the continental-postmodern feature, and the perspective of Islamic wisdom. What is common between these three people and their representatives is the emphasis of all three on dealing with science and sociology to the specific issues and topics of each society, and the special attention to its specificity, including the historical specificity and identity of the Iranian society: the first group believes. Fixed and universal theoretical principles and foundations belong to modern science and these principles should be used to understand and solve the local problems of Iranian society. The second group believes that these principles are different for every society and culture, and understanding Iranian society requires identifying the specific cultural and historical principles and rules of this society. The third group definitely has the social beliefs of the first group about the global identity of science, but they consider the theoretical foundation of the modern scientific platform to be wrong and believe that there are alternative foundations to the Islamic wisdom for indigenous knowledge. In this article, the general orientation of "fundamental methodology" is used.In this article, the general orientation of "fundamental methodology" is used.
New ideas for the reconstruction of social sciences based on the sources of Islamic thought
Arash Hasanpour; Ali Rabbani
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The pursuit and realization of an ideal society and cultivating human wellbeing has been one of the main goals of the leaders and thinkers in human societies from the past to the present day. The history of mankind is the proof that the thought of achieving individual and collective prosperity ...
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The pursuit and realization of an ideal society and cultivating human wellbeing has been one of the main goals of the leaders and thinkers in human societies from the past to the present day. The history of mankind is the proof that the thought of achieving individual and collective prosperity and the formation of a flawless society have been the major concerns for thinkers and leaders of human societies. The realization of a good society is sometimes called a righteous society, a clean life, a perfect community, utopia, an adorable society, an advanced and pious society, and a creative society, a correlated, coherent and organic system. To accomplish this goal, this paper attempts to answer these questions1. What is a good society in contemporary intellectual systems and how is it defined?2. What is the model and pattern of a good society based on the text of the Quran?The study is conducted within the framework of the qualitative method of meta-synthesis using the seven-step technique of Sandlowski and Barroso. Meta-synthesis is a method in which the qualitative studies are combined together, their similarities and differences are compared, their findings are translated into each other and a new interpretation of their sets is obtained. This interpretation can lead to a more comprehensive explanation of the phenomenon under study, or create new theories in explaining the phenomenon examined.
