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Methodical pluralism means the acceptance and application of different and proportionate methods. This paper seeks to identify the views of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi on methodical pluralism in the Islamic humanities, the application of different methods and the expression of its consequences. Using a content analysis method this paper identifies and categorizes the views and then logically analyzes its consequences. Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, as a philosopher in the field of philosophy of Islamic humanities, discuses this issue in two general axes - principles of science and relation of sciences - and then examines descriptive and prescriptive science, Islamic humanities and methodical pluralism. While basing the appropriateness of the method with the subject, he emphasizes the need to use a variety of methods appropriate to the subject and practically accepts the use of rational, narrative and empirical methods in all three sections - principles and descriptive sciences and prescriptive sciences. Some of the consequences of his methodological point of view are: paying attention to Islamic humanities, paying attention to the philosophy of science in each field, accepting all kinds of sciences and their mutual services to each other, possibility to move towards the interdisciplinary sciences, as well as the relative acceptance and critique of modern humanities