The Study of Shariati's Methodological Approach to Fundamental Principles of Religion

When a religion can take religious life background that believing in its fundamental principles is the result of epistemic convincing and intellectual certainty which that religion can open some ways to this goal. In Islam, being non-imitative and investigation are as fundamental principles of common claiming of inter-religious and extra-religious approaches. This matter from inter-religious approach is of important and necessaries of Islamic tradition. From extra-religious approach, when a religion provides the possibilities of its epistemic assessments in order to compare its claims to other religions, it has epistemic interesting and opens its way of rational legitimacy, while these investigative and non-imitative principles can be controversial. Methodological viewpoints of religion, in general, are assessable in two realms of demonstration and explanation, two realms that have different manifestations in plural methods. Philosophers try to demonstrate and sociologists try to explain these principles. Dr. Ali Shariai, as a religious sociologist, has tried to explain these principles. In this research, is studied the way of his encountering to the principles of religion in the form of methods of explanation and demonstration.