Seyed Javad Miri is an associate professor at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies and Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. His fields of research are sociology, history of religions, philosophy of science and social sciences, and psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of Islamic Perspective, which is aimed at creating debates in humanities and social sciences between thinkers of the East and West.

Defending the values of enlightenment and rationalism and pursuing dialogue between the major global civilizations is an important task at the global level in the years ahead, and it is in this respect that the present new book by Dr. Miri acquires particular importance for students of global politics and political thought.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1.BiographyChapter 4 2. Relocating the Jafarian PerspectiveChapter 5 3. Human Sciences and the Heptafold Domains of SociologyChapter 6 4. Human Sciences in the Past, Present, and FutureChapter 7 5. Rationality, Leben, and Intelligible LifeChapter 8 EpilogueChapter 9 Sources

Seyed Javad Miri is an associate professor at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies and Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. His fields of research are sociology, history of religions, philosophy of science and social sciences, and psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of Islamic Perspective, which is aimed at creating debates in humanities and social sciences between thinkers of the East and West.

Defending the values of enlightenment and rationalism and pursuing dialogue between the major global civilizations is an important task at the global level in the years ahead, and it is in this respect that the present new book by Dr. Miri acquires particular importance for students of global politics and political thought.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1.BiographyChapter 4 2. Relocating the Jafarian PerspectiveChapter 5 3. Human Sciences and the Heptafold Domains of SociologyChapter 6 4. Human Sciences in the Past, Present, and FutureChapter 7 5. Rationality, Leben, and Intelligible LifeChapter 8 EpilogueChapter 9 Sources

Seyed Javad Miri is an associate professor at the Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies and Sharif University in Tehran, Iran. His fields of research are sociology, history of religions, philosophy of science and social sciences, and psychoanalysis. He is also the editor of Islamic Perspective, which is aimed at creating debates in humanities and social sciences between thinkers of the East and West.

Defending the values of enlightenment and rationalism and pursuing dialogue between the major global civilizations is an important task at the global level in the years ahead, and it is in this respect that the present new book by Dr. Miri acquires particular importance for students of global politics and political thought.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 IntroductionChapter 3 1.BiographyChapter 4 2. Relocating the Jafarian PerspectiveChapter 5 3. Human Sciences and the Heptafold Domains of SociologyChapter 6 4. Human Sciences in the Past, Present, and FutureChapter 7 5. Rationality, Leben, and Intelligible LifeChapter 8 EpilogueChapter 9 Sources