Capacity Identification of Foresighted and Strategic Approaches to Mahdaviyyat Instruction in the New Islamic Civilization Context
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Assistant professor of Islamic Sciences and Communications Faculty, Imam Sadeq University
2 MA. Student of Islamic Sciences and Communications, Imam Sadeq University
Abstract
In the years after the Revolution Victory, different approaches were formed among the professors and experts of the Mahdaviyyat field, which formed certain scientific context; and with regard to Islamic Revolution civilization orientation, each of these Mahdavi approaches can gain their specific capacities to realize this civilization. One of these approaches was the “foresighted and strategic” one to Mahdaviyyat which was presented by some experts of Mahdaviyyat field. This paper, which is a descriptive-detective research, aims to answer this question: what is the foresighted and strategic approach to the Mahdaviyyat and how much capacity dose it has to realize the Islamic civilization? For this purpose, in the first section for scientific introduction of this approach, a curriculum vitae(CV) with a defined framework, which was lent from “Samaniyeh Topics” of the science of logic, was used; and then in the second section, for capacity identification of civilization, after profound interviewing with the experts of this approach, using qualitative method of Thematic Analysis, in the form of three contents “descriptive”, “interpretative” and “integrating”; and using the software Maxqda, was coded and analyzed. According to findings and information resulted from Thematic Analysis, it was finally specified that the greatest civilization capacity of foresighted and strategic approaches will appear in the “scientific and technological”, “social”, “political and legal”, “spiritual and devotional acts”, “educative and moral”, “cultural and artistic”, “communicative” and “economic” regimes, respectively based upon priority, to move toward the civilization of reappearance (the new Islamic civilization).
Keywords
- Mahdaviyyat
- modern islamic civilization
- foresighted and strategic approaches
- capacity identification
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Volume 12, Issue 1
June 2018Pages 81-122
- Receive Date: 26 July 2016
- Revise Date: 09 February 2017
- Accept Date: 25 April 2017