Methodological Requirements of Islamic Policy Design Facing Social Injuries

Bostan (Najafi), Hossein

Methodological Requirements of Islamic Policy Design Facing Social Injuries

Document Type : Special

Author

Hossein Bostan (Najafi)

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Research Institute and University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

This article tries to provide a clear picture of the methodological requirements of Islamic policy design in the face of social injuries by using the author's experiences during the implementation of a research project on chastity and hijab policies in Iran. To this end, it has separated the three main stages of the policy design process, namely problem analysis, philosophical and normative principles, and proposed policy analysis, and has tried to explain how Islamic themes influence each of these stages by giving examples. The first stage includes several axes that in at least two axes of expressing the problem and explaining the current situation, we can talk about the possibility of influencing Islamic themes in policy design. The second stage includes two axes: philosophical principles and normative principles, in which Islamic themes play a decisive role in almost all of them. The third stage also includes several axes which, although mainly based on empirical and statistical methods, sometimes we see the effect of Islamic themes in them, and that is in cases where the explanation of reasons for selection or capacities or obstacles to the proposed policy depends on explaining its relationship with Islamic views. has it.

Keywords

: policy design

Islamic policy research

social injuries

sex

politics of chastity and hijab

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