Martyr Sadr's Methodology for Islamic Economics; A Different View Point

Despite the importance of martyr Sadr’s methodology for developing Islamic economics, there has been a paucity of research on the nature and essence of it.Using an analytical method, this paper explains the logic of reasoning in his methodology. According to the hypothesis of the paper, martyr Sadr sought to use a different logic for reasoning. This logic is different from the logic of traditional jurist's predecessors. This logic has been the basis for introducing the method of discovery and separation between Islamic Doctorine and Islamic economics. The research results show that Sadr’s approach is very similar to Kant's methodology in using transcendental syllogisms for meeting the conditions for the possibility of experience and the systemic unification of science. In this regard, martyr Sadr reconstructs the school of Islamic economics as a unified system, a set of propositions and as a condition for the possibility of Islamic economics. In this reconstruction, he applies a combination of jurisprudential decrees as data so that through hypothesizing the veracity of these data in a recursive method called "transcendental syllogism", he can reach ideological principles and tenets in whose framework Islamic economics is possible.