Analyzing the Contextual Relationship between Science and the Quran in Establishing Islamic Human Sciences

Abstract

One of the most critical and challenging issues regarding revealed human sciences and the comprehensiveness of Quranic teachings is the possibility of an Islamic human science in terms of Quranic content. Examining the content and issues of the Quran and science can be done with various purposes, but the present study, using a descriptive-analytical method, aims to answer the doubt about the impossibility of revealed human science. The results indicated that different views exist in this area. Some, assuming that religious issues and, consequently, Quranic teachings are separate from human science issues, believe that the relationship between them is one of contradiction. Others accept contextual overlap but consider the relationship to be one of opposition. A third view argues that their relationship is one of agreement, but the instances of agreement are minimal, making the realization of revealed human science impossible. According to these theories, a revealed human science is fundamentally impossible. Therefore, each of these theories represents a fundamental question and underlying doubt in this arena, and until these are answered, talking about such a science that can be both human and revealed is not logical. The finding of this paper is to address the fundamental flaws of the aforementioned three views as competing viewpoints and to prove the possibility of revealed human sciences as the chosen viewpoint, which we will address with an interpretative approach and a library-based method.