A Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences
This paper seeks to present a critique of and an alternative to theories and theorizing employed by social scientists to explain the relationship between religion and politics in general and Islamic Political Experience in particular. Within the context of the paper we argued that politcal theory c...
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oai:doaj.org-article:32aa9ff2077e4b01968ef489786add572021-12-02T17:26:16ZA Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences10.35632/ajis.v18i2.20212690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/32aa9ff2077e4b01968ef489786add572001-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/2021https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This paper seeks to present a critique of and an alternative to theories and theorizing employed by social scientists to explain the relationship between religion and politics in general and Islamic Political Experience in particular. Within the context of the paper we argued that politcal theory can be conveniently understood in terms of the co-existence of two distinct and rival styles of though Positivism and historicism. For the lack of better terms we take positivism and historicism to be conventional and radical paradigms respectively. The paradigms are found wanting in that they do not have the capacity to provide a satisfactory framework of ideas and common vocabularly with which to conduct discourse on Islamic Political Experience. In any case, for a paradigm to do that, it must become fully subsumed in an Islamic worldview. A paradigm presented as a critique and alternative to these paradigms is based on conceptual analysis, with pure Qur’anic and Shariah concepts providing both the framework and methdological tools of analysis. It is an axiomatic approach as it involves systematic analysis of a number of axioms, the starting point of which is the idea of the totality of Islam as an ideal which Muslims endeaovur to concretize. Garba Bala MuhammadInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 18, Iss 2 (2001) |
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This paper seeks to present a critique of and an alternative to theories
and theorizing employed by social scientists to explain the relationship
between religion and politics in general and Islamic Political
Experience in particular. Within the context of the paper we argued that
politcal theory can be conveniently understood in terms of the
co-existence of two distinct and rival styles of though Positivism and
historicism. For the lack of better terms we take positivism and
historicism to be conventional and radical paradigms respectively. The
paradigms are found wanting in that they do not have the capacity to
provide a satisfactory framework of ideas and common vocabularly
with which to conduct discourse on Islamic Political Experience. In any
case, for a paradigm to do that, it must become fully subsumed in an
Islamic worldview. A paradigm presented as a critique and alternative
to these paradigms is based on conceptual analysis, with pure Qur’anic
and Shariah concepts providing both the framework and methdological
tools of analysis. It is an axiomatic approach as it involves systematic
analysis of a number of axioms, the starting point of which is the idea
of the totality of Islam as an ideal which Muslims endeaovur to
concretize.
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A Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences |
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A Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences |
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A Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences |
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A Critique of Theories and Theorizing in Social Sciences |
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critique of theories and theorizing in social sciences |
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International Institute of Islamic Thought |
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2001 |
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