Abstract:
Different approaches and perspectives can be suggested on the feasibility and dismissal of the Islamic theory of international relations. The present paper suggests that the processing of the Islamic theory of international relations based on the assumptions derived from Islamic texts and doctrines employing logic, and a valid and justified Islamic method is conceivable within the framework of the Islamic worldview through criticizing and further reflection of the arguments and claims of those who dismiss the feasibility of the Islamic theory of international relations. This Islamic founding theory holds an explanatory, developmental, critical, and normative nature, the purpose of which is to describe, explain, understand, and interpret the existing international relations and further illustrate how it evolves and shifts and then establishes the convenient international order.
Machine summary:
On the other hand, epistemological differences on the nature and identity of religious science and Islamic theory of international relations, and the dilemma of extracting and deducing it from the book and tradition (Sunnah) or establishing it based on the principles and assumptions derived from these sacred texts are determinants that cause multiplicity in the approaches.
This Islamic founding theory holds an explanatory, developmental, critical, and normative nature, the purpose of which is to describe, explain, understand, and interpret the existing international relations and further illustrate how it evolves and shifts and then establishes the convenient international order.
This Islamic founding theory holds an explanatory, developmental, critical, and normative nature, the purpose of which is to describe, explain, understand, and interpret the existing international relations and further illustrate how it evolves and shifts and then establishes the convenient international order.
The evidence dismissal approaches that deems the Islamic theory of international relations to be existentially objectionable can be summarized and interpreted in the following cases: secularism, contrastive pluralism, and scientific integration.
The science of international relations is similarly secular by nature in the theoretical sense and has been established on metaphysics and non-religious philosophical foundations (Fox & Sandler, 2004).
Religious and Islamic methods have an individual and mental nature based on rational observations and internal and narrative intuitions, which are in contrast with the experimental inductive method ruling science.
The propositions of the Islamic theory of international relations are assembled from these four sources and have an experimental, rational, intuitive, and narrative nature.