Hermeneutical Foundations for Islamic Social Sciences
Article Type:
Research
Writers:
Mansor / Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini Educational and Research Institute / Nasirimansour4@Gmail.com
Abstract:
social sciences are given. It is observed that in all of these proposals, interpretation and understanding are crucial. Hermeneutics is introduced in the broad sense of the study of interpretation and understanding, and a brief review of its
developments is given, with an emphasis on the work of Gadamer. Some of the problems of the application of hermenteutics are discussed along with suggestions about the rational evaluation of competing views that may be formulated in initially incommensurable languages. The idea of religious hermeneutics is next developed with reference to the positions that have been taken by Bultmann, Plantinga, and Nasr; and on this basis three grades of religious hermeneutics are distinguished. An attempt is made to overcome some problems for an Islamic hermeneutics with reference to proposals by William Chittick and Leo Strauss. Problems with the application of an Islamic hermeneutics are reviewed and solutions offered. The view that the objectivity of science precludes religious science is rejected in favor of the view that objectivity does not depend on neutrality but on articulation, the process of making assumptions and presuppositions explicit and to formulate them with ever greater precision (where this is appropriate). Complications that arise for the application of an Islamic hermeneutics for the social sciences are surveyed, and it is proposed that the application of an Islamic hermeneutics for the social sciences must be developed in a dialectical relationship to the scientific traditions whose secularity gave rise to the calls for sacred science
and in particular for Islamized social sciences
چکیده و کلیدواژه فارسی (Persian)
Title :مبانی هرمنوتیکی علوم اجتماعی اسلامی / محمد لگنهاوسن / ترجمه‌ی منصور نصیری
Abstract:
این مقاله، با مروری اجمالی بر برخی پیشنهادها درباره طرح علوم اجتماعی اسلامی، بر آن است که در همه این پیشنهادها، «تفسیر» و «فهم» نقشی سرنوشت ساز دارند. هرمونتیک به معنای وسیعِ مطالعه تفسیر و فهم مطرح و تحولات آن را با تأکید بر تأثیرات گادامر، به اختصار بیان شده است. در ضمنِ پیشنهادهایی که درباره ارزیابی عقلی دیدگاهایی که ممکن است در زبان های بدواً غیرقابل مقایسه صورت بندی شوند، برخی از مشکلات به کارگیری هرمنوتیک مورد بحث قرار گرفته است. سپس، انگاره هرمنوتیک دینی را با اشاره به دیدگاه های بولتمان، پلانتینگا و نصر مطرح شده است. و بر همین اساس، سه درجه از هرمنوتیک دینی از یکدیگر تفکیک شده است. نویسنده با ارجاع به طرح های ارائه شده از سوی ویلیام چیتیک و لئو اشراوس، تلاش کرده است برخی از مشکلاتی را که فراروی هرمنوتیک اسلامی قرار دارد، حل نماید. مشکلات کاربست هرمنوتیک اسلامی را مرور و راه حل های آن را ارائه نموده است. این دیدگاه را که عینیت علم، مانع از علم دینی است، رد نمود. و این دیدگاه را ترجیح داده است که عینیت، بر بی طرف بودن وابسته نیست، بلکه بر صراحت وابسته است؛ یعنی بر فرایند تصریح به فرض ها و پیش فرض ها و صورت بندی آنها با دقت هرچه بیشتر در پایان، دشواری هایی را که فراروی کاربست هرمنوتیک اسلامی برای علوم اجتماعی قرار دارند، مورد بررسی و پیشنهاد شده است که کاربست هرمنوتیک اسلامی برای علوم اجتماعی باید در ارتباط دیالکتیکی با سنت های علمی ای صورت گیرد که سکولار بودن آنها، علم مقدس و به ویژه علوم اجتماعی اسلامی شده را ایجاب کرده است.
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Legenhausen, Mohammad, , Mansor.(2025) Hermeneutical Foundations for Islamic Social Sciences. Ma`rifat-e Farhangi Ejtemai, 1(3), 7-47
Mohammad Legenhausen; Mansor ."Hermeneutical Foundations for Islamic Social Sciences". Ma`rifat-e Farhangi Ejtemai, 1, 3, 2025, 7-47
Legenhausen, M, , M.(2025) 'Hermeneutical Foundations for Islamic Social Sciences', Ma`rifat-e Farhangi Ejtemai, 1(3), pp. 7-47
