Anthropological Foundations of Ali Safai Haeri and the Related Educational Principles

Explanation of the Islam’s educational system is among the issues considered by the anthropologists. Their opinions make the problem clearer. Ali Safai Haeri is among the contemporary Islamic thinkers with high scientific rank who has concentrated on education and educational system theory. Based on the religions sources. His works led to a research on extraction of anthropology principles as the most crucial principles of this course the research was conducted using descriptive, formal and technical language analysis and deduction methods. In this study, we have explained some terms and concepts used in Safai’s works including those applied in a “Human in two chapters” , ”Structure of society” , “minding, thinking and supervising”, “key” and “freedom”. Then, concerning the “worship” as the general goal of Safai’s educational system, we have explained three anthropological foundations. According to his works, he has configured three anthropological foundations of type I, three intermediate goals, eight anthropological foundations of type II and eight educational principles, in a practical scale.