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A Methodological Overview

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Absolute Reality in the Qur'an

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The complete methodological orientation given to deductive reasoning and its circularly connected inductive reasoning in respect of the law of monotheism (tawhid) is expounded. The socio-scientific composition of total analytical explanation of the monotheistic worldview is brought out by invoking the methodological components involving ontology, epistemology, and phenomenology. The methodological overview of the tawhidi socio-scientific essence of socio-scientific reasoning is thus formalized.

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Choudhury, M.A. (2016). A Methodological Overview. In: Absolute Reality in the Qur'an. Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58947-7_3

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