Anthropological Foundations of the Islamic Social Science Paradigm

Given the important role that foundations of anthropology play in identification of social science paradigm and discriminating it from competing paradigms, this paper has a descriptive-interpretive approach to the Islamic texts – the Holy Quran and Hadith – and tries to introduce some of the anthropological foundations of Islamic social science paradigm using a literature survey method. These foundations are as follows: features of activities, rationality, decision, choice, mutual interaction with surrounding variables, association with paranormal variables and eventually a common nature, human nature and evolution. At the beginning, they are linked through fewer intermediaries to an Islamic explanation of human behavior.