Assistant professor of Bagher al-oulum (A.s) university
Abstract
philosophy of religion is an enterprise of philosophical and rational reflection on religion in the sense that it attempts to explain the religious beliefs and statements, raise arguments and evidence for or against and deal with truth or otherwise of its claims. Philosophy of usul (principles of fiqh) too deals with conceptual as well as propositional principles of the science of usul such as ijtihad (independent reasoning in legal matters), judgment, reason, value and its various types, certainty and its different sorts, and linguistic and exegetical problems. There are common aspects and interactions between these two fields of study in discussions of religious language, hermeneutics, interpretation of reason and religion and the role of reason in understanding religion, human expectations of religion and its domain.
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