Ma`rifat Farhangi Ejtemaei

Using a theoretical-analytical method this paper seeks to study the religious science from the perspective of Allameh Allameh Mesbah Yazdi to explain whether religious science is inferential or foundational. The founding approach gives originality to narrative teachings and metaphysical supports in which serious attention to Islamic principles and worldview is necessary. Findings of the research indicate that from the point of view of Ayatollah Mesbah, religious science is a science whose data are not contrary to the text of the Qur'an and definitive narrations; a science in which theories are based on religion, or at least religion has not rejected them. Therefore, science is not merely religious and secular in terms of description, and in terms of recommendation and instructions, it can also be religious and secular, but it is outside the scope of science. In his view, a science is religious whose foundations are religious. Principles are not necessarily obtained by inference from religious sources, but may be proved by a philosophical argument. In the Islamization of science in all approaches, in order to extract the Islamic view, inference must be used. In order to establish religious science, one must deduce the foundations, principles, issues, concepts, hypotheses, theories, methods, etc. from religious propositions.