چکیده:
The topic of “religious science” is controversial and has its supporters and detractors. One of the supporters of “religious science” is ÀyatullÁh JawÁdÐ ÀmulÐ. In this debate the ÀyatullÁh takes “science” in its most general meaning to include all sciences and fields of knowledge، and sees religion as hierarchically subsuming all such sciences. He accepts the possibility of the existence of a religious science and uses both interpretive and philosophical methods to prove the same. With respect to the realization of religious science، he takes an absolutist approach and holds that religion covers and comprehends all sciences—there being no such thing as a “non-religious” science. Such a perspective is the result of a three stage process: 1) Determination of the central position of the intellect in the matrix of all religious understanding; 2) Validation of the universal reason and understanding of rational beings by religious Law; 3) Exposition of the universality of the sciences by recourse to textual evidence. When these three steps or stages are obtained، they progressively subsume all sciences and fields of knowledge.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Ayatollah Javadi Amoli holds a positive view toward religious science in various books such as The Status of Reason in the Geometry of Religious Knowledge, Sharia in the Mirror of Knowledge, Theology, Man's Expectation of Religion, The Relation between Religion and the World, and in exegetical books like Tasnim.
178) In addition to the aforementioned definition, Professor Javadi Amoli considers the mission of comprehensive religion or monotheistic religion to be the investigation of the existence of Almighty God, the evaluation of the Beautiful Names of God, and the explanation of the active attributes of God. Based on this, empirical sciences that deal with the explanation and the nature of the action of Almighty God fall within the category of religion and religious propositions.
In the discussion of religious science, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli does not consider the intended meaning of reason to be merely reason in philosophy or empirical reason; rather, he states: "The purpose of reason in this series of discussions is not specifically pure abstract reason, which demonstrates its proofs in philosophy and theology; rather, its scope also includes empirical reason, which appears in empirical and human sciences, semi-abstract reason, which is responsible for mathematics, and pure reason, which arises from theoretical mysticism" (Ibid.
With the above explanation, Ayatollah Javadi Amoli expresses another stage of the Islamization of sciences: "In the being Islamic of a matter, two essential factors are effective; one, which is considered the most important and fundamental, is the establishment and innovation from the side of the Holy Lawgiver, and the other, which acquires a religious aspect, is the validation and endorsement of popular contracts so that they are not inconsistent with the value principles and rules of Islamic knowledge.
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