بومي سازي علم يا توليد علم

Indigenizing Knowledge or Producing Knowledge

The translation movement resulted in opening new ways to the intellectual world; in the sphere of producing knowledge, however, it resulted in ever increasing stagnation and even intellectual dependence as well as the emergence of a new phenomenon called intellectual colonialism. The need to modernism in humanities would be met not by translation and anomalous import of western thoughts, but by The discourse seeking indigenization of social sciences and humanities in Iran seems to have involved in some sort of confusion, for however the parameters of western theories are modified, a new issue would emerge which must naturally go through theorization process. Unfortunately, we do not distinguish between question and problem, and many researches in the sphere of humanities and social sciences are answers to questions not solutions to problems, while our difficulty is related to "problem-solving". The present article uses a theoretical approach, aiming at investigating the process of indigenizing and producing knowledge in Islamic Iran.