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            to  us  independently.  Unless            curiosity  and  truthseeking
            those     theories     are    also        spirit.  (Misbah  Yazdi,  2016:
            documented  in  the  words  of            238-239)
            God,  the  Prophet,  and  the                The  nature  of  internal
            Imam.  (Misbah  Yazdi,  2016:             critique  is  that  it  will

            149-150)                                  determine the extent to which
                                                      Western        sciences       have
            1.  Internal  Critique  of                adhered to their principles and
            Western Sciences                          assumptions.

            This  type  of  critique  is  the            Lack  of  adherence  to  the
            kind  of  critique  that  Western         principles  of  the  subject  and

            scientists make of each other,            the  assumed  methods  in  a
            and  as  a  result,  a  reinforced        science  may  be  due  to  two
            theory  or  its  weaknesses  and          reasons:
            shortcomings may be revealed.             -  The  first  is  the  negligence

               In  other  words,  just  as  a         and  misuse  of  the  Western
            Western scientist has the right           sciences by their foundations.
            to  critique  Western  science,

            so  too  do  Eastern  scientists          - Second, the inefficiency and
            and Muslims have the right to             wrongness of those principles.
            critique     Western       science

            internally. Such an Eastern or               For  example,  about  a
            Muslim  scientist  should  not            century  ago,  psychology  was
            only be accused of prejudice;             dominated  by  the  school  of

            But       also      should      be        behaviorism, which was based
            encouraged  because  of  his              on  materialism,  empiricism,
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