Secular science and religious science From the perspective of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi

Author:
Jafar Salemi
Level:
Ph.D
Subject(s):
Theology
Language:
Farsi
Faculty:
Faculty of Religions
Year:
2020
Publisher:
URD Press
Supervisor(s):
Mostafa Jafar Tayyari
Advisor(s):
Hamidreza Shariatmadari, Seyed Ahmad Barakat Dibaji

The discussion of religious science and its opposition to secular science is a vast and intractable story. Ayatollah Javadi and Ayatollah Mesbah, who are prominent Islamic scholars, have theorized about the nature of religious science and its possibility and its opposition to secular science. The present thesis is a comparison between the views of the two thinkers on the criterion of religion and the secularity of science. In this passage, each of them, despite the differences in the definition and standard of religious science, has provided a single definition of secular science. Ayatollah Javadi sees science as the discovery of the truth that if it is at its disposal or based on religious philosophy, it considers it divine and religious. Ayatollah Mesbah considers science as sufficient for religious knowledge, considering the various components in the formation of a science, a science which, in none of its components, contradicts religious. But regarding the opposite of religious science, that is, secular science, it must be said that secular or anti-religion is not an inherent characteristic of science but a characteristic that, given the context, philosophy of science, subject, is attributed to science. In this statement, Ayatollah Javadi puts the “science” of divine truth to the credit of the agent over a two-way street. If the subject is divine and believes in the elements of divine philosophy, its science is religious, and if the subject is atheistic and anti-religious, it is called secular science. Master Mesbah compares “science” to religious or anti-religious assessments after he is worthy of description. The recent view that mere incompatibility of science at all stages from its foundations to issues and its implications with religion holds that science is religious is sufficient. This thesis uses a descriptive and library approach, and no one has compared comparisons and contradictions before.