Research Methodology in the Human Sciences

Prior to inferring humanities (such as educational sciences and psychology) from the Islamic resources, the most fundamental question is "the possibility or impossibility of producing religious science". Having reviewed Allameh Misbah's theory as the proponent of "religious science" and that of Prof. Ali Paya as the opponent, this paper goes to compare the two theories through an educational approach. The adopted method is descriptive-analytic and library reference. Resources used are philosophical and educational. This project is carried out in the course of five phases: semantics of terms "science" and "religion", definition of "religious science", whether religious science is possible or impossible as per Ayatullah Misbah and Prof. Ali Paya's viewpoints, religious technology, and at last the examination of their opinions. According to the findings and after comparison, it turns out that producing humanities –including educational sciences- are possible. This is because from one side, value propositions like factual and realistic ones uncover the truth; and from another side, religion is a resource of educational and value doctrines.