Research Methodology in the Human Sciences

Humanities constitute the software of every civilization. Current humanities are proportionate to the structure and ideology of western world. Despite Islamic modern civilization's logical need of the Islamization of humanities, there some scholars who cast suspicion on the prospect of Islamic humanities. It is thus necessary to analyze and assess the theoretical challenges of Islamization of humanities. Having focused on the viewpoints of the prominent Muslim philosopher, Allameh Misbah Yazdi and adopted a descriptive-analytic method, this paper goes to critically examine the religious challenges of "the possibility of Islamic humanities". "Minimal religiosity" or secularism which claims that religious data are too insufficient to produce science is the most significant challenges of the possibility of "Islamic humanities". In his explanation of the required foundations for the Islamization of humanities including religious principles, Ayatullah Misbah not only has answered the challenges, but also has shown how to present real samples of Islamic humanities; furthermore, he has insisted that religious science is a must.