Mixed Research Strategies in Islamic Wisdom; A Case Study of Ayotollah Misbah's Philosophy Education

Methodology is a process knowledge that consists of several steps, and research strategies are one of these steps and among the key topics of this knowledge. Therefore, one of the necessary tasks for a precise understanding of the methodology of Islamic philosophy is to know the research strategies of this philosophical trend. The strategy is the direction of the research and the type of techniques, methods, approaches and attitudes used in the research. Explaining that when we face a problem, we must specify what our problem is? How do we approach the problem to solve it? Where is the starting point for problem solving? Do we have an end point for problem solving or do we reach an end point in the process of problem solving? That is, do we have a general answer that we want to reach or do we not know what answer we want to achieve? What are the techniques we want to use? What are the problem solving methods? What are problem solving approaches? What are the problem solving attitudes? What is our design to solve the problem? Facing these questions, we have to adopt a suitable strategy. Professor Mohammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi is one of the great Islamic philosophers and thinkers, who in Islamic wisdom, including the methodology of Islamic wisdom; He has a precise, critical and innovative view and has placed his philosophical thoughts in the field of confrontation with the thoughts of Western philosophers .

Method of Study:

 In this article, the authors focus on the book of Misbah's Philosophy Education using the interpretive strategy and explanatory-analytical method and extract the strategies of Misbah's mixed philosophical research from this work. Because this book is one of the important works of philosophizing of Islamic philosophy, which contains the philosophical views of Professor Misbah Yazdi, and is not a summary, description and interpretation of the views of other Islamic philosophers.

We have divided the strategies of philosophical research into two simple and mixed parts, which simple research strategies include deductive strategy, analytical strategy, inductive strategy, interpretive strategy and intuitive strategy. Also, mixed strategies are the result of mixing two or more simple strategies with each other. Professor Misbah in his philosophical views of the mixed strategies of 1- analytical-deductive; 2- analytical- deductive-interpretive second type; 3- analytical- deductive-interpretive second type-intuitive; 4- analytical-interpretive first and second type; 5- analytical-interpretive type two; 6- analytical-interpretive second type-inductive; and 7- analogical-interpretive second type has been used .

Research strategies are one of the stages and steps of the methodology of philosophy, which are not exclusive to a philosopher and philosophical school; Rather, every philosophical research has a research strategy. Of course, a philosopher may not use mixed strategies and believes in simple strategies or may use other types of mixed strategies. Research strategies, direct the flow of the philosopher's philosophizing and knowing these strategies and their application in philosophizing will make this flow purposeful.