Deductive Qualitative Content Analysis and the Usage of Islamic Doctrines in Social Sciences

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Referring to Islamic Holy Texts in terms of social sciences' questions is one way of using Islamic doctrines and allows religious theorizing in this area. This article briefly reviews the limits, the privileges, and the necessities of the methods and the techniques that are introduced in Islamic and social sciences for analyzing these texts and finding their responses to social sciences' questions. Choosing deductive qualitative content analysis as an appropriate approach for these researches, attempts to show its capabilities in satisfying this task and, specially, in considering the standards that Islamic sciences require for valid interpretation of Islamic Holy Texts. Findings show that it has the necessary attributes for this understanding, the capacity to avoid the limits, to regard the necessities, and to benefit the privileges in optimizing results; and, regarding these standards, it can provide an interpretation of these texts that has necessary validity and reliability in the view of both scientific area.

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