PHILOSOPHICAL GROUNDS OF ISLAMIC AND WESTERN RESEARCH PARADIGMS: AN APPLIED ANALYSIS
اسلامی اور مغربی تحقیق کی فلسفیانہ مبادیات کا اطلاق و افتراق
Keywords:
Islamic Civilization, Waltenshuang, Western paradigm, research methodology, theology studiesAbstract
This paper focuses on the comparative study of Islamic and Western research foundations. Debate in academia concerning to the issues faced by the researchers of religious studies seems a gap of diversion between two major discourses of Islam and the West. A researcher has to find out appropriate methods from diverse philosophical variations available in both paradigms. Applying phenomenological method in qualitative paradigm the paper explores that there is a significant difference in the world views of Islamic and Western research paradigms and it is not pertinent to search out points of intersection between them. Finally, the study concludes that researchers of theological concerned areas must rethink paths to ponder cutting edge philosophical and applied issues of contemporary era.