Journal of Islam and Social Sciences; No. 16
Description
The main objective of the Journal of Islam and Social Sciences is to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers to discuss their most recent findings related to the relationship of Islam and social sciences in Iran. By doing so, the journal hopes to improve the status of the field in Iran and in the world and to find solutions to theoretical and practical problems the profession is faced with. The wide range of issues related to the relationship between religion i.e. Islam and the social sciences requires that specialized scientific journals, and in the near future scientific researches, devote special attention to issues and problems raised in this regard. So the results of these researches will address the needs of the scientific community in the country. For this reason, the Department of Social Sciences of RIHU has been seeking publication of a journal titled "Islam and Social Sciences". Semi-annual journal of Islam and Social Sciences, in order to cooperate with other sections of Hawzah and University and to realize the above-mentioned goals and developing and deepening the literature in the field of relationships between Islam and social sciences and with the aim of providing scientific information, providing ground for dialogue and reflection of the opinions of scholars and creating a ground for the production of religious science and providing a suitable space for the further development and progress of the Islamic social sciences intends to examine the relations of religion, especially Islam and social sciences, in the form of publication of special issues. To serve this purpose, researchers are encouraged to submit their unpublished, original, full-length papers for potential publication in the journal. The journal is set to publish original articles on a wide range of issues including; Social philosophy: (in the Quran and other religious texts and the tradition, in the thought of Muslim scholars and comparison of different attitudes and approaches); Philosophy of social sciences: (in Islamic sources, convergence and divergence of different perspectives); Methodology of social sciences: (review of their function and their role in Islamic religious-Islamic social sciences); Social thoughts of Muslim thinkers: (social issues and strategic theories, theories, areas of sociology including sociology of religion, sociology of knowledge, historical sociology, cultural sociology); Religious theorizing (inferred from Islamic resources) on social issues; Reviewing and comparing social religious propositions of different religions with each other; Religious-Islamic sociology (subject, methods, theories, analysis and critique of approaches, goals and application, the relation of Islamic sociology with dominant paradigms in sociology, the role and application of Islamic sociology in Islamic and non-Islamic societies);