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How to Face with Western Sciences … S.R. Noorafshan et al (209

                     Table 1. The Extent of Benefiting from Western Sciences


                    Internal Content of             Methodology            Basics and
                    Western Sciences                                   Statutory Principles
                                                                              Epistemology

            Much     Experimental               Much    Experimenta
                       Science                           l  Method             Ontology
                                   Descriptive
                                   Dimensions                           A     Anthropology


              A      Humanities                   A       Rational    Little
             Little                             Little    Method                 Value
                                                                                System


                                                                               Theology
                            Normative
              A            Dimensions             A      Narrative            Problem and
             Little                             Little    Method      Much     Suspicion

                                                      adaptation of religion with the
            Conclusion                                achievements of experimental

            In the face of Muslim thinkers            sciences and religiosity.
            with  Western  science,  there               Dealing  with  the  West
            have  been  damages  that                 correctly is a project that must

            should  be  avoided.  These               be  realized by  criticizing  and
            damages include political and             selecting Western sciences.
            nationalistic  attitudes,  self-             In the thought of Ayatollah
            defeating and Westernization,             Mesbah  Yazdi,  we  come

            eclecticism,          irrevocable         across three main axes to deal
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