Application of Integrative (Three-Dimensional) Method in the Studies of Humanities

Nowadays, due to the limits of the qualitative and quantitative empirical method, researchers recommend the use of integrative method. The present paper, considering the effect of fundamentals on method, suggests the necessity of using revelation, reason, and experience in the studies of humanities as an integrative method which produces comprehensive results. To prove the necessity to use these three sources, evidence has been cited from religious sources. Practically, this method undergoes four general stages: in the first stage, the views of scholars of humanities are investigated and evaluated. In the second stage, related narrative data are gathered. In the third stage, the subject is experimentally tested. In the fourth stage, data elicited from these three sources are compared and analyzed in the light of reason. If inconformities are detected, then the applied experiment tool, the way of interpreting religious texts or scholar's views are reexamined. The final criterion of accuracy is the harmony of data elicited from these three sources..