Abstract:

Contemporary positivist notion of science can be described as being have subjective, responsive and ideological aspects. This notion sometimes directly, other times indirectly rejects the scientific nature of certain branches of science such as religious sciences and history. Therefore historians and scholars of religious sciences should put “the narrative knowledge” which is their basic material, to a test to remove any shadow of doubt about their being scientific. This search for being scientific which resembles the story of a man who had lost the key of his house in the dark part of the street, but looking for it in the highted area, should not be in need of searching for an understanding through classical positivist understanding. Thus this article should be seen as an opened scientific door for sciences such as “siyar” which take narration as a base, to return to their own enlightment

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