The Humanities: the Nature, the Spheres and the Processes of Their Transformation

The attention to the necessity of the transformation in sciences, especially in the humanities, is one of the most important and valuable achievements brought about by the Islamic Revolution in Iran for the Islamic world. In the Islamic Republic, the opportunities for research in this regard, which are more than any other Muslim countries, have prepared the ground for researchers and experts to theorize about it and explain the related methods; this is because these achievements are transferable to other Islamic societies only if we seriously think about what the humanities are and what processes are necessary to achieve this transformation. In this paper, after reviewing the nature of science and the humanities, and assuming that the transformation in the humanities means a stable one in a desired direction with a scientific authority in fundamentals, methods, concepts, structures, theories and schools and scientific literatures, the spheres in this transformation are introduced and the steps in the "strategic", "managerial" and "epistemological" processes in this transformation are described. Thus, it is obvious that this transformation is neither a reconstructive reductive approach nor a mere applied cultural traditionalization and indigenization, but what is meant by the transformation in the humanities is a process in which the theories in the humanities will be systematically produced according to Islamic principles and resources (wisdom, experience and religious tradition) in line with the purposes of Sharia and the needs of the Islamic society.