Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Muslim scholars have studied the social problems and phenomena of their communities through various approaches and methods. This paper seeks to investigate the features and qualities of these approaches and their inter-relationships between them under the name of Muslims’ sociology. The revelatory approach in the lifetime of the Prophet, the traditional, hadith-based, interpretive, jurisprudential, philosophical, theological, mystical, reportage concerning two subjects: history and monographs (itinerary) and oratorical approach in the form of a book of politics, a book of principles of chivalry, a book of Sharia are used for explanation, interpretation, criticism and prescription in the field of sociology or propagation on a social scale. These approaches have different capacities and use various methods. However, they interact and they have relationship with one another in a coherently classified system and so they constitute one specific discipline.