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General Themes of the Conference:

• A. Allamah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah Yazdi’s views about:

1. The Nature, Possibility, and Validity of Islamic Human Sciences
2. Foundations of Islamic Human Sciences:

2-1. Epistemological Foundations of the Human Sciences

2-2. Ontological Foundations of the Human Sciences

2-3. Anthropological Foundations of the Human Sciences

2-4. Axiological Foundations of the Human Sciences

2-5. Religious Foundations of the Human Sciences

3. The Method and Process of Producing Islamic Human Sciences
4. Problems of Human Sciences in the Areas of:

4-1. Ethics

4-2. Economics

4-3. History

4-4. Politics

4-5. Management

4-6. Psychology

4-7. Law

4-8. Education

4-9. Sociology

 

• B. Comparing the Thoughts of Allamah Mesbah in the Area of Human Sciences and Those of Other Intellectuals;
• C. The System of Allamah Mesbah’s Thought in Islamic Human Sciences;
• D. Impacts of Allamah Mesbah’s Thoughts on the Work of Human Scientists

 

Detailed Subjects

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1. Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Misbah Yazdi’s views of:

• The nature, possibility, credibility, and necessity of Islamic human sciences
  • The nature of science, Islam, Islamic science, human sciences, and the Islamic human sciences
  • The possibility of Islamic sciences
  • The possibility of Islamization of human sciences
  • The manner and necessity of Islamization of human sciences
  • The credibility of standard human sciences
  • The meaning and ground of transformation in human sciences
  • The relation of Islamization to descriptive and explanatory dimensions of human sciences
  • The role of Islamic human sciences in the Islamic civilization
  • The role of Islamic human sciences in the Islamic society

 

 

• The foundations of Islamic human sciences:

1. Epistemological foundations of human sciences
   • Foundationalism and its role in the Islamic human sciences
   • Realism and its role in the Islamic human sciences
   • The role of knowledge by certainty in the Islamic human sciences
   • The role of probabilistic knowledge in the Islamic human sciences
   • Critique of epistemic relativity in standard human sciences
   • The role of subject-matters in methods of human sciences
   • The role of reason in Islamization of human sciences
   • The role of the Qur’an and the Tradition in Islamization of human sciences
     • The scope of application of revelatory doctrines in descriptive and prescriptive human sciences
     • Mutual effects of reason and revelation in Islamization
     • The problem of the conflict between reason and revelation in human sciences
     • Degrees of credibility of religious knowledge and its role in human sciences

• The role of experience in the Islamic human sciences
  • The limitation of efficiency of the empirical method in explanation of human action
• The role of intuition in Islamization of human sciences
• The relation between endowed knowledge and Islamic human sciences
• Epistemological obstacles to Islamic human sciences
  • The impact of prejudices (both epistemic and non-epistemic) on the Islamic human sciences
  • The impact of dark and bright veils and their removal on Islamization of human sciences

2. Ontological foundations of human sciences
   • The impact of the belief in God on descriptive and prescriptive Islamic human sciences
   • Degrees of monotheism and its role in Islamic human sciences
   • The role of explaining the relation between possible beings and the existence-conferring being in Islamic human sciences
   • Mutual entailment of knowledge of God and self-knowledge in Islamization of human sciences
   • Degrees of existence and their role in Islamization of human sciences
   • The application of the principle of causation in human actions
   • The conflict in the material world and its role in Islamic human sciences

 

3. Anthropological foundations of human sciences
   • The impact of the problem of the immateriality of the soul on Islamic human sciences
   • The impact of the problem of the incipience and eternity of the soul on Islamic human sciences
   • The type of relation between souls and bodies and its impact on Islamic human sciences
   • The role of human free will in Islamic human sciences
     • Human sciences as governed by causal necessity and its compatibility with human free will

• The role of divine innate nature (fiṭra) in Islamic human sciences
• The common nature of humans and Islamic human sciences
• Commonalities and distinctions between humans and their impact on Islamic human sciences
• The human creation and its impact on Islamic human sciences
• The role of ultimate human end and perfection (divine proximity) in descriptive and prescriptive Islamic human sciences
• The dependence of ultimate human perfection on his voluntary acts and their role in descriptive and prescriptive Islamic human sciences
• The impact of the meaningfulness of life on Islamic human sciences
• The role of the interplay between human insights, tendencies, and acts in Islamic human sciences
• Degrees of human existence and their role in Islamic human sciences
• The criterion for prioritization of human needs and its impact on Islamic human sciences
• Existential structures of human beings (epistemic structure, tendencies, and aptitudes)
• The role of (innate and acquired) human dignity in prescriptive Islamic human sciences

 

4. Axiological foundations of human sciences
   • The veridicality of values and its impact on Islamic human sciences
   • The impact of moral absolutism on Islamic human sciences
   • The role of belief or disbelief in rational right and wrong in Islamic human sciences
   • The role of intent in the value of voluntary acts and its impact on Islamic human sciences
   • The extent of value in voluntary acts and its impact on Islamic human sciences
   • The role of religious values in the specification of the problems of human sciences and their solution
   • The role of values in the discovery of the relation among human phenomena

 

5. Religious foundations of human sciences
   • The nature of religion and its impact on human sciences
     • The way in which a definition of religion is obtained and its impact on human sciences

• The scope of religion and its impact on human sciences
  • The methodology of specification of the scope of religion and its impact on human sciences
• The comprehensiveness of Islam and its impact on Islamic human sciences
• The eternity of Islam and its impact on Islamic human sciences
• The role of religion in descriptive and prescriptive dimensions of Islamic human sciences
  • The relation between religion, morality, and spirituality, and its impact on Islamic human sciences
  • The relation between Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and morality, and its role in Islamic human sciences
  • The role of the veridicality of the language of religion in the formation of Islamic human sciences
  • The nature of faith and its role in Islamic human sciences
  • The relation between science and religion, and its role in Islamization of human sciences
  • The relation between religion and progress, and its role in Islamic human sciences

 

• The method and process of production of Islamic human sciences
  • Commonalities and distinctions between Islamic human sciences and standard human sciences
  • The place of rational sciences (philosophy, theology, and mysticism) in Islamic human sciences
  • The role of the philosophy of human sciences in the transformation of human sciences
  • The method of exploitation of theological foundations in Islamic human sciences
  • The possibility and credibility of production of Qur’an-based and hadith-based Islamic human sciences
  • The method of exploitation of the Qur’an and hadiths in Islamic human sciences
  • The method of deduction of descriptive and explanatory issues of human sciences from the Qur’an and hadiths
  • The method of deduction of prescriptive issues of human sciences from the Qur’an and hadiths
  • The place of standard human sciences in the production of Islamic human sciences
  • The production of Islamic human sciences
  • The method and process of production of Qur’an-based Islamic human sciences
  • The logic of religion and Islamization of human sciences
  • The role of Islamic seminaries and universities in Islamization of human sciences

 

• The Islamic Human Sciences

1. Ethics
   • Preliminaries and concepts
     • The nature and scope of Islamic ethics
     • Islamic applied ethics and its difference from Islamic mysticism
     • The relation between Islamic ethics and other disciplines
     • Rational, transmitted, and empirical ethics

• Theological, epistemic, anthropological, and religious foundations of ethics
  • The relation between theological foundations and ethics
  • Quranic and transmitted foundations of ethics
  • The place of God in moral action
  • Implications of the belief in God and the degrees of monotheism in the realization of ethics
  • The nature of moral value
  • The hierarchy of moral values
  • The ultimate value of moral action
  • The relation between knowledge and moral propositions
  • The role of knowledge by certainty and relativistic knowledge in ethics
  • Mystical and intuitive foundations of an ethical school
  • The place of reason in the formation of an ethical school
  • The place of free will in the realization of moral action
  • The role of innate nature in moral guidance
  • The role of the degrees of human existence in ethics
  • The role of human dignity in ethics
  • The role of human insights, tendencies, and actions in ethics
  • The perfect man as a role-model
  • Rational goodness and badness in ethics
  • Action-based and agential goodness
  • The nature of faith and its role in ethics
  • The relation between religiosity and ethics
  • The relation between ethics and rights

 

• The principles, methods, and problems
  • The principles governing Islamic ethics
  • The rulings of Islamic ethics
  • The scope of Islamic ethics and its comparison with Western intellectuals
  • The methods of moral training
  • The criteria of choice in moral conflicts
  • The methods of internalization of moral virtues
  • The methods of conduct in institutionalization of moral values and its impact on Islamic human sciences
  • The role and place of ethics in Islamic civilization
  • Moral transformation in accordance with Quranic verses and hadiths
  • The changeability of moral characters
  • Applied and professional ethics
  • Social ethics

 

2. Economics
   • Epistemological foundations of economics
     • Epistemological components of economic propositions (with emphasis on knowledge by presence and intuitive knowledge)
     • The relation between scientific, religious, and economic propositions, and a consideration of the possibility of drawing upon religious methodology in Islamic economics
3. • Ontological foundations of economics
     • The study of ontological components of economic propositions (with emphasis on divine traditions and Islamic institutes)
     • The study of ontological components of a Muslim individual’s economic behavior (with respect to existential and legislative Lordship and ultimate perfection)
     • The study of ontological components of a Muslim individual’s economic behaviors, with emphasis on rights and justice
   • Anthropological foundations of economics
     • The role of Islamic anthropology in Islamic economics and its differences with humanistic conceptions of man
     • Individualism and its role in Islamic economics
   • Axiological foundations of economics
     • The role of the ethical school preferred by Islam in Islamic economics
     • The way in which human instincts and innate inclinations and desired perfections emerge and arise in economic activities of a Muslim individual
     • The study of axiological components of the economic conduct of a Muslim individual, with emphasis on hedonism
     • The study of the role of the origins of human voluntary actions and their impact on moral values, needs, and goals in Islamic economics
     • The study of the role of consequentialism and deontologism as well as the Islamic approach in economic conducts of a Muslim individual
     • The study of the role of ultimate ends of humans as free conscious agents in Islamic economics
     • The role of intent and agential goodness in the economic behavior of man as a free conscious agent
     • The study of the nature and impact of beliefs, preferences, emotions, instincts, feelings, tendencies, and commitments in economic behaviors of a Muslim individual
   • The problems of Islamic economics
     • Genuine divine ownership and conventional human ownership, and the latter’s implications for economics
     • Governmental ownership: the philosophy, the role, and its limits
     • The study of the role of Islamic governments in Islamic economics, with emphasis on the place, interventions, and policy making
     • The study of the relation between jurisprudence (fiqh), law, and economics, with emphasis on social institutes of Islam
     • Egoism and its implication for the theory of consumer’s behavior

 

3. History
   • The genuineness or conventionality of history
   • Evolution of history
   • Lawfulness of history
   • Divine traditions governing the history
   • The goal of historical analysis (taking lessons and application to contemporary circumstances)
   • The factors contributing to progress and decline of societies throughout the history
   • The study of characters and practices of the Infallibles (the Prophet and Shiite Imams) as role-models for individual and social behaviors
     • The ground of Imam ‘Ali’s refusal to make a compromise with Mu‘āwiya
     • The exposition and elaboration of the Fadak sermon of Zahrā (peace be upon her)
     • The goal of the uprising of Imam al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon him)
     • The study of the backgrounds and consequences of the uprising of ‘Āshūra
     • Reply to objections to the uprising of Imam al-Ḥusayn (peace be upon him)
   • Correspondences between deviations in the early Islam and those after the Islamic revolution

 

4. Sociology
   • The foundations of Islamic sociology
     • Definition of sociology, the place of sociology in the hierarchy of sciences, the method of sociology
     • Ontological foundations: genuineness or existence of society, manner of existence of individuals and societies and its implications for human sciences, lawfulness of the society
     • Anthropological foundations: social determinism, mechanism of the realization of social acts, the impact of the interplay between the individual and the society on Islamic human sciences, the origin of human social life and its impact on human sciences
   • The method and process of production of Islamic sociology
     • The possibility and method of deducing sociological theories from religious texts
     • The study of social theories of Muslim and non-Muslim intellectuals
     • Critique of exegetical, explanatory, critical, and normative theories in sociology
   • The problems of Islamic sociology
     • Kinds of society
     • Ideal society
     • Social laws
     • Social institutes
     • Relations between institutions
     • Social pathology
     • Social inequalities
     • Analysis of war, conflicts, quarrels, and tensions
     • Social transformation
     • Social crisis
     • Social balance
     • Enjoining the good and forbidding the wrong
     • Sociability, and social monitoring and control
     • Takaful (mutual guarantee) and social services

 

5. Law
   • Foundations of Islamic law
     • The central role of God in legal systems
     • Human dignity in Islamic legal outlook
     • The principles of constitutional rights
     • The goal of law
     • The central role of perfection in Islamic law
   • The problems of Islamic law
   • Comprehensive system of rights and obligations
   • The relation between realism and idealism in Islamic legal system
   • Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s proposal for “human rights”
   • Humanitarian rights
   • International law
   • The philosophy of initial war (jihad)
   • Private law
   • Criminal law
   • Environmental law
   • Women rights
     • The philosophy of legal differences between women and men
     • Fundamental principles of women’s rights in the Islamic outlook
   • The place of freedom in legal systems
   • Law and social freedoms
   • Islam and enslavement
   • The right for revolution in Islamic law
   • Mutual rights and obligations of people and an Islamic government
   • Legislative system in the Islamic Shari‘a
   • The procedure of judgeship

 

6. Psychology
   • Foundations of Islamic psychology
     • The nature (subject-matter, problems, and goal) of Islamic psychology
     • The role of axiological foundations in the subject-matter, problems, and their explanation in Islamic psychology
     • The role of ontological foundations in Islamic psychology
     • The role of anthropological foundations in Islamic psychology
     • The role of epistemological foundations in the formation of Islamic psychology
     • The role of theological foundations in the formation of Islamic psychology
     • The structure of psyche
   • The problems of Islamic psychology
     • The motivational model in accordance with Islamic sources
     • The conscious and the unconscious
     • Psychotherapy in accordance with theological foundations
     • Psychological foundations of moral virtues and vices
     • Psychological analysis of the relation between man and God
     • The factors and the process of the development of a healthy character
     • The factors and the process of psychological changes
     • The principles and grounds of Islamic lifestyle
     • Components and parameters of Islamic lifestyle

 

7. Political sciences
   • Foundations of Islamic politics
     • The nature of Islamic politics
     • The place of politics in Islam
     • The possibility and necessity of political theorization in Islam
   • The problems of Islamic politics
     • The individual and the society: the place of individuals in Islamic political thought; the relation between individuals and the society; the Islamic view of how the society emerges
     • Politics and power: the concept and nature of Islamic politics; the theory of power in Islam (concept, nature, origin, scope, types, and levels of power)
     • Government and state: the theory of government in Islam (the nature of government and state; the necessity of government; the relation between religion and government; obligations and functions of government; mandates of government; types of government; the form and structure of government in Islam; the hierarchical order of government; Islam and the theory of the separation of powers; government from Islamic and secular viewpoints; idealism and realism in government; raison d'etre of government; government and methods of performance)
     • Law: Islamic legal system (the nature of law; origin of law; the criterion for the legitimacy of law; the place of divine laws—natural and conventional; law and legal schools; the scope of law; the relation between legislative laws and existential laws; the relation between legal laws and moral laws; characteristics of a legislator; Islamic and liberal views of legitimate laws; graded evaluation in Islam)
     • Sovereignty: theory of sovereignty and legitimacy in Islam (nature of sovereignty; the relation between sovereignty and legislation; divine sovereignty and legislative Lordship; sovereignty and legitimacy; origin of legitimacy; the human self-determination; the relation between divine sovereignty and human sovereignty; Islamic and liberal views of sovereignty and legitimacy)
     • Rule and reign: theory of Islamic rule (conditions of reign; degrees of rule; leadership and guardianship; guardianship of the jurist (wilāyat al-faqīh))
     • The place of people in the government (theory of religious democracy; concept and nature of democracy; critique of liberal democracy; Islam and the civil society; the republic and the Islamic; religious democracy)
     • Political rights and responsibilities
     • Freedom: theory of freedom in Islam (nature of freedom; foundation of freedom, the scope of freedom; legitimate and devastating freedom; the relation between religious requirements and freedom; appointment and freedom; the system of evaluation and freedom; freedom, guardianship, and government; the distinction between Islamic and liberal views of the limits of freedom)
     • Security: Islamic theory of security (nature and ground of security; foundation of security; the goal of security; levels and dimensions of security; methods of combatting insecurity and the means of providing the security)
     • Justice: Islamic theory of justice (nature of justice; philosophy of justice; the ground and goal of justice; tenets of justice; economic justice; social justice; political justice; cultural justice; the distinction between Islam, on the one hand, and liberalism and Marxism, on the other, with respect to justice)
     • Kindness and violence: Islamic theory of violence and kindness (grounds of kindness and violence; legal and illegal violence; moral and immoral violence; the distinction between Islamic and liberal views of kindness and violence)
     • Tolerance: Islamic theory of tolerance (nature of lenience and tolerance; grounds and goals of tolerance; the scope of tolerance; the distinction between Islamic and liberal views of tolerance)
     • Participation: Islam and theory of participation (nature of participation; grounds of participation; goals of participation; levels of public participation; factors contribution to the increase or decrease of participation)
     • Development and progress: theory of Islamic development (the nature of development; foundation of development and progress; the goal of development; kinds of development; degrees of development; Islamic model of development; critique of Western modernity)

 

8. Educational sciences
   • The foundations of Islamic education
     • Nature and meaning of education
     • The perspective of Islamic education and training (nature of the Islamic system of education and training)
     • Educational grounds, goals, and principles of Islamic-Iranian civilization
     • Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s contributions to Islamic education and training
   • Educational domains
     • Political training
     • Doctrinal (religious) training
     • Social training
     • Moral training
     • Intellectual and rational training
     • Emotional training
   • Educational problems
     • Training efficient human forces with the standards of Islamic revolution in organization of Islamic human sciences
     • Methods of training efficient human forces
     • Training religious scientifically-minded trainees
     • Methods of training rational people
     • Methods of development and reinforcement of lawfulness
     • The role of the Ministry of Education and Training in training efficient forces
     • The place of family in training efficient citizens
     • Moral training and its stages
     • The impact of faith and disbelief on human training
     • Guardianship-centered system of training
     • Ways of reinforcement and parameters of evaluation of professional qualifications of teachers and trainers
     • Mahdi-based training and preparation of the ground for the appearance of Imam al-Mahdi
     • Islamic-Iranian lifestyle

 

9. Management
   • Foundations of Islamic management
     • The impact of philosophical foundations on tasks and principles of management (planning, organizing, decision-making, control, guiding and leading, etc.)
     • The impact of Islamic philosophical and axiological principles on public policy-making (model, compilation, performance, and evaluation)
       1. The impact of Islamic principles on political policies
       2. The impact of Islamic principles on economic policies
       3. The impact of Islamic principles on cultural policies
       4. The impact of Islamic principles on social policies
     • Futures studies in management
     • The role of jurisprudence (fiqh) and jurists (fuqahā’) in public policy-making
   • Problems of Islamic management
     • The place of elites in public policy-making
     • The place of people in public policy-making
     • Impacts of Islamic sciences in public policy-making
     • Cultural policy-making
     • Principles governing public policy-making
     • Critique and examination of theories of public policy-making
     • Obstacles and challenges to public policy-making
     • Principles related to insights, attitudes, and actions in organizational behavior
     • Organization culture
     • Organizational laws and regulations
     • Bureaucratic system
     • Pathology of (management of) managers
     • Competences of managers
     • Devising Islamic management
     • Training righteous managers
     • Ethics of managers
     • Consultation in management
     • Compliance in management
     • Bureaucratic corruption

 

10. Art
    • Definition of beauty and its nature
      • Beauty and glory
      • Beauty and goodness
      • The beautiful
      • Kinds of beauty
      • Objectivity or subjectivity of beauty
      • The meaning of art and fine arts
    • Art, form, and matter
      • The relation between aesthetics and philosophy of art
      • The relation between beauty and art
      • Dimensions of beauty and art
      • The relation between beauty and perfection
      • Beauty and relativity
      • The relation between art and value
      • Axiology (the beautiful, the good, the real)
      • Aesthetic values
      • Art and freedom (detachment)
      • Art and language
      • Art and knowledge
      • Art and feelings
      • Art and epistemology (truth and falsity in art)
      • Phenomenology of works of art
      • Aesthetics and cognitive dissonance
      • Aesthetics and ingenuity
      • False pleasures
      • Art and the reality (art and the transcendental)
      • Art and senses
      • Art and narrative
      • Interpretation of works of art (hermeneutics of art)
    • Types of art
      • Deviated art
      • Religious art
        1. Religious art, symbol, expression
        2. Symbolization and expression in religious art
        3. Classification of arts (place, time, senses, matter, spirit, extent of representation)
      • Lowly and sublime art
    • Audiences of works of art
      • Perceivers of beauty
      • Beauty-perceiving faculties
      • Artistic literacy
      • Audience’s unconscious arts
      • Pleasures of works of art
      • Audience’s existential manners
      • Encounter with works of art (interpretation and reception, evaluation or judgment)
      • The process of understanding beauty
      • Art and training
      • Susceptibility of audience
      • Functions of beauty and art
      • Priorities of teaching art in a religious system (trainability of audience)
      • Audience’s gender
      • Audience’s age group (art and children)
      • Audience’s culture (popular art, elite art)
    • Components of works of art
      • Committed artists (artists and their society)
      • Artists and intents
      • Existential manners of artists
      • Creativity
      • Taste (artistic sensitivity)
      • Imitation and its applications
      • Unconscious and conscious aspects of the work of artists
      • Artists and inspirations
      • Artists and intuitions
      • The relation between philosophy and art (artist-philosopher or philosopher-artist)
      • Artist’s gender
      • Artist’s worldview and artistic style
      • Artists and craftspeople (similarities and differences)

 

1. Comparative studies of Ayatollah Misbah’s thought and other intellectuals of human sciences
   • The nature and scope of religion in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • The nature and scope of religion in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western intellectuals
   • Religious science in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • Religious science in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western intellectuals
   • The approach to standard human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • The process of Islamization of human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • The comparison of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s intellectual system in Islamization of human sciences with other Islamic intellectuals
   • Foundations of Islamic human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • Foundations of human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western philosophers
   • Problems of Islamic human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
   • Problems of human sciences in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western philosophers

 

• In ethical studies
  • Relation between religiosity and morality in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with Kohlberg’s view
  • Perfect man in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with self-flourishing
  • The place of free will in the realization of moral action in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with deterministic views
  • The relation between knowledge and moral propositions in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with contrary views
  • The ultimate value of moral action in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with secular approaches
  • Perfect man in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with Kohlberg’s view
  • The principles and foundations of lifestyle in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with the humanistic approach in psychology
  • Components and parameters of Islamic lifestyle in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with the humanistic approach in psychology
  • Psychotherapy in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with Albert Ellis’s approach to psychotherapy
  • The relation between the soul and the body in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with the biological approach
  • Psychological analysis of human-God relation in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with psychoanalysis (Freud and Jung)
  • Grounds of the emergence of religion in the human life in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and its comparison with William James’s view
  • The will in the views of psychologists and its comparison with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s view
  • Free will in the views of psychologists and its comparison with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s view
  • The structure of psyche in the views of psychologists and its comparison with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s view
  • Factors and process of psychological changes in psychology, as compared with Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s view

 

• In economic studies
  • Comparative study of the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, ‘Allama Tabataba’i, and Ayatollah Mutahhari concerning the individual and the society, and its role in Islamic economics
  • Comparative study of the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and ‘Allama Tabataba’i concerning the Islamic society (with emphasis on theoretical wisdom, practical wisdom, institutes, and conventions), and its role in Islamic economics
  • An ontological pathology of the studies of Islamic economics, as derived from the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi concerning individualism and its ramifications
  • An anthropological pathology of the studies of Islamic economics, as derived from the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi
  • An axiological pathology of the studies of Islamic economics, as derived from the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi
  • A comparison of epistemological components of economic propositions in the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi with psychological epistemic-axiological principles of neo-classic economics and Moore’s intuitionism in Keynesian economics
  • Comparative study of individualism in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi and the methodological individualism governing the standard economics
  • Foundations of Islamic economic system
  • Ownership
  • Centralization and decentralization
  • Economic obligations of Islamic government
  • Economic motivations of a Muslim
  • Deceits of usury
  • Principles governing production
  • Principles governing distribution

 

• In management studies
  • The definition and nature of Islamic management in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah, as compared with the views of other Muslim intellectuals
  • The methodology of Islamic management in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah, as compared with the views of other Muslim intellectuals

 

• In sociological studies
  • The primacy of society (or communitarianism) in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and sociologists
  • Social determinism in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and sociologists
  • Imitation, absorption in groups and authority figures in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and sociologists
  • Types of social activity in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and verstehende sociologists

 

• In political studies
  • Political legitimacy in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
  • Political legitimacy in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western intellectuals
  • People’s role in government and political participation in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and other Islamic intellectuals
  • People’s role in government and political participation in the view of Ayatollah Mesbah and Western intellectuals

 

• In legal studies
  • Comparative study of Ayatollah Mesbah’s proposal for “human rights” and universal declaration of human rights
  • Privileges of the issues of women rights in the work of Ayatollah Mesbah

 

2. Ayatollah Misbah’s intellectual system of the Islamic human sciences
   • Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s contribution to the trend of Islamization of human sciences
   • Compilation of Ayatollah Mesbah’s intellectual system of Islamic human sciences
   • The impact of Ayatollah Mesbah’s intellectual system in each human science (management, economics, political science, etc.)
   • Historical-analytic study of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi’s intellectual approach to Islamization of human sciences
   • Study of human sciences in terms of their hierarchy (establishment and proof, higher and lower, equal) in the thoughts of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi

 

3. The impact of Ayatollah Misbah’s thought on the work of human scientists
   • The impact of Ayatollah Mesbah’s thoughts on the work of human scientists
     • Proponents
     • Commentators
     • Critics