Theology and religions
Hamed Khani (Farhang Mehrvash)
Abstract
One of the most famous works in Iran from the beginning of the 1960s until now is Man the Unknown by Alexis Carrel. With the passage of 70 years since the first Persian translation, the market boom of this work has not yet been lost, and at the same time, its content and function in Iranian society have ...
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One of the most famous works in Iran from the beginning of the 1960s until now is Man the Unknown by Alexis Carrel. With the passage of 70 years since the first Persian translation, the market boom of this work has not yet been lost, and at the same time, its content and function in Iranian society have not been ever analyzed. This study is the first step toward this goal. By reviewing the evidence of Iranians' attention to the book, this study aims to defend this hypothesis that the widespread promotion of the book was followed by Islamist movements as a result of important theoretical implications of the work in favor of their Theology. Followers of such movements wanted to compensate the poverty of literature and theoretical weaknesses in representing a native and modern human theory by taking advantage of Carrel's book. As we will reveal in this study, with the development of the discourse of Islamic humanities, this book has been considered as confirming the necessity of choosing an Islamic humanities instead of "western humanities".
Methodology
Mohmmad Reza Qaemi Nik
Abstract
Methodology of Islamic Humanities from Ahmad Hossein Sharifi who is a faculty member of Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute, is the second book in his trilogy on Islamic humanities (Foundation of Islamic humanities and Islamic theorizing in humanities). In this book, in the first three chapters ...
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Methodology of Islamic Humanities from Ahmad Hossein Sharifi who is a faculty member of Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute, is the second book in his trilogy on Islamic humanities (Foundation of Islamic humanities and Islamic theorizing in humanities). In this book, in the first three chapters (analysis of concepts and introductory points, counter-method theory, and research questions), he describes the generalities of his view, and in the fourth to fourteenth chapters, seven methods of Islamic humanities, ie definition, description, explanation (and characteristics of explanatory methodology), reasoning (deductive, inductive and allegorical), interpretation (and methodological features of interpretation), prediction and evaluation. In this article, after the introduction and formal critique of the book, first the general critiques and then the critiques regarding the chapters of the book in terms of content are presented. Although in a general evaluation, this book, has not been able to expand and explain the Islamic principles in the methodological details of the Islamic humanities.
