Humanities and Its Epistemological Principles in Islamic Approach

The definition of humanities and the specific theoretical and epistemic principles on which these sciences are based, are among the most important topics for the researchers. The issue of the present study is that if the humanities are to be produced by an Islamic approach, on what epistemological principles are they based, what are the characteristics of these principles, and how do they affect the production process of these sciences. The achievements of the present study are: 1. the most important epistemological principles of humanities in the Islamic approach are: "realism", "theory of correspondence", "foundationalism", "certainness" and "rationalism"; 2. these five principles have a network characteristic, meaning that these principles derive from each other and affect each other, or in other words, they have a logical and interactive relationship; 3. as a result of generalizing these principles in the humanities, also with regard to "instruments and levels of knowledge", especially reason and rational perception, as well as intuitive perception and esoteric findings, as well as "sources of knowledge" especially religious texts, and "encounter of Islamic thought with epistemological pluralism and relativism", different views will be formed in the humanities compared to Western views, and based on this, we can speak in different layers of the production of humanities in Islamic approach. The present study seeks to provide a new definition of the humanities and explain the epistemological principles and characteristics of these sciences using a rational-philosophical method.