Comparative Study of Three Islamic Social Science Approaches

Comparative study of three Islamic social science approaches in the scientific atmosphere of Islamic republic of Iran. “Documental Method” is used for data collection in the existing documents. Also, “Comparative Method” is used to study and compare the approaches. HosseinBostan by an epistemic approach realizes “Ijtehadi” (individual reasoning) method as the main feature of Islamic social science. Hamid Parsania by a cultural-epistemic approach attends the inner (epistemic) and exterior (epistemic and non-epistemic) factors of science production. Also he believes in an existing Islamic social science. HosseinKachooyan on the basis a social-historical approach realizes the nature of Islamic revolution as definer of the social science that should be produced. These approaches have many similarities together. Some of these similarities are basic and some other is non-basic. Also, these approaches have differences.