Islam, Science, Religious, Traditionalism, Modernism

The contemporary materialist culture of the West has gone astray in explicating the world and human being due to deprivation of God’s words and the tradition of the Immaculate. Consequently, a number of paradoxes in explaining the concepts, structure, stages, resources and foundations of human processes have been created which, in turn, caused numerous fallacies in various fields of humanities, philosophy of art, architecture and urban planning whenever man and his values are considered. Most of the time, such fallacies are also seen in the arguments of westoxicated intellectuals and even university scholars. These fallacies have caused the resistance of some academicians against the approach of humanities promotion and development and weak role of Ijtehad in original and Islamic theorization. In this article, the most important fallacies which are proposed especially in the fields of art, architecture and urban planning are studied in eight categories as following: 1) opposition between science and religion, 2) opposition between traditionalism and modernism, 3) negating the relationship between Islam and the works of Muslim architects, 4) opposition between eliticist and participatory approaches, 5) opposition between imitation and creativity, 6) opposition between idealism and realism, 7) opposition between humanism and theism, 8) opposition between globalism and localism. Since the validity of this research is based on reason and quotation, the analytic as well as argumentative and interpretive methods have been used for understanding the claims and explaining the views respectively. Citing religious texts and drawing on logical analysis, this research shows that such fallacies are not valid from the Islamic perspective. Such fallacies are due to wrong interpretations of one or both sides of the opposition. Moreover, this study proposes eight diagrams which work as models for resolving suchoppositions.