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                       Introduction                              including the discussion about the
                       Before the  serious  confrontation        possibility and necessity of religious

                       of  the  Islamic  world  with  the        science and compiling the Islamic
                       Western  civilization  from  the          pattern    of    progress     (Ref:
                         th
                       18   century  onwards,  Muslim            Parsania, 2015; Golshani, 2018;
                       thinkers  and  people  did  not           Nasr, 2003).
                       feel  a  conflict  between  the              Although  various  kinds  of
                       Islamic religion and other aspects        research have been conducted on

                       of  life,  including  society,            the  relationship  between  science
                       business, professions, etc. Parallel      and culture during the last decade
                       to  the  expansion  of  Western           (Ref: Parsania, 2015;  Golshani,

                       civilization  to  other  parts  of  the   2018),     as    well    as    the
                       world,  the  conflict  between            relationship  between  science
                       religion and development, which           and  religion  (Ref:  Bagheri,
                       had  a  long  history  in  the            2008; Golshani, 2018; Rezania,

                       Christian  West,  became  a               2018;  Haught,  1995),  but  the
                       problem for other cognitive and           relationship  between  religion

                       religious  systems  that  did  not        and  development has  received
                       suffer  from  such  a  problem.  In       less  attention.  Meanwhile,  the
                       other words, the emergence of the         conflict  and  challenges  between
                       epistemic  system  of  modernism          material and secular civilizations

                       and its epistemological requirements      as well as religious and spiritual
                       have  caused  conflicts  in               civilizations have reached their
                       Eastern societies, including the          peak and become clearer.

                       Islamic  world,  such  as  the               This  study  seeks  to  the
                       conflict  between  religion  and          relationship between religion and
                       development  and  efforts  to             development from the perspectives

                       resolve  it.  In  recent  years,          of Muslim thinkers, which can
                       major  issues  have  been  raised         strengthen the theoretical foundation
                       among  researchers  that  have            of  the  Islamic  pattern  of

                       made  attention  to  the  issue  of       development. As the main question,
                       the relationship between religion         are  there  serious  inconsistencies
                       and development more serious,             between  the  epistemological
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