an episteme reflection on futures studies

Futures Studies as an emerging trans-disciplinary science is quickly gaining legitimacy and expansion in both theory and practical areas. Military and security sections have always been the main customers of future-oriented analytical research. One of the major obstacles in the way of generalization futures studies and acquisition of scientific pervasive legitimacy are epistemological and methodological challenges in this area. This paper will consider compliance futures studies with the current framework of social science. Then, the article reviews the philosophy of science, and in particular some of the early paradigms such as critical realism and pragmatism. We followed this article with an attempt to seek appropriate philosophical paradigms for Muslim futurists. Therefore, the article tries to seek the crude proposed Islamic realism (with the taste of transcendental wisdom and realism of Allameh Tabatabai).In this way, future studies in the military fields can be based on the Strong foundation of the epistemological framework in which the validity of reason and quotation is accepted from the achievements of the colleges of the Military colleges and the school of theology simultaneously to benefit.