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"comReceived: 2012-10-6 - Accepted: 2013-2-20 An Analysis of Action Stimulus ; a Comparative Approach to the Views of Western and Muslim Sociologists Akbar Mirsepah 1 , Mansur Haqiqatiyan 2 , Muhsen Sadeqi Amini 3 Abstract Nowadays, the extensive debates on indigenization and Islamization of knowledge show the necessity of extracting and expounding the Islamic view on the basic issues of social sciences including sociology.
Using a documentary method based on the second approach and a comparative study as a basic research method in social sciences, the present paper elaborates on the concept of action in the light of famous western thinkers' views, the viewpoint of the Quran and traditions, and compares between them.
comReceived: 2012-7-14 - Accepted: 2013-1-13 Table of Contents The Identity and Existence of Society and Its Interaction with Its Constituents / Seyyed Hussein Fakhr Zare' 5 An Analysis of Action Stimulus ; a Comparative Approach to the Views of Western and Muslim Sociologists / Akbar Mirsepah, Mansur Haqiqatiyan, Muhsen Sadeqi Amini 27 Jalal Al Ahmad's Intellectual Experience and Paving the Way for Achieving Indigenous Criteria / Hamid Parsaniya , Mansooreh Khaefi 49 The Sources of Developing the Culture of Hejaz before the Holy Prophet's Mission (Nature and Inter-cultural Relations) / Qolamreza Parhizkar 77 The Critical Methodology in Dr. Soroush's Social Thought / Mohammad Tale'I Ardakani 97 The Methodology of Ṭāhā ‘Abd al-Rahmān's Theory of Rationality / Hadi Beigi Malekabad 121 An Introduction to the Philosophical Possibility and Necessity of Having an Islamic Management; a Criticism of Modern Methodology / Seyyed Muhammad Hussein Hashemiyan 145"