Justice in the Context of the Debates Regarding Historicism and Meta-historicism

This paper seeks to examine the concept of justice from various perspectives in the political thinking of West and Islam based on the prior and posterior epistemology that can be seen as the struggle between historicism and meta-historicism in the discussion of justice. Using Hamid Abu Zayd’s interpretive method, it has been tried to investigate the history of Western and Islamic debates in two distinct parts: selecting Western philosophers from classical, new, and contemporary periods on one hand, and some of early and current philosophers of Islamic thinking on the other hand. In its western part this means, the approximate sameness of historicism and meta-historicism concerning the western concept of justice and the concepts of eternity and creation in the Islamic realm of thinking would be emphasized. Therefore, the research question and hypothesis will be as followed: The principal question: What is the relation between organizations of the concept of justice in Islamic and Western thinking? The Hypothesis: The disputes concerning historicism and meta-historicism regarding the concept of justice in West stands here-under the debates about eternity and creation of the Scripture in the realm of Islamic thinking.