The Genesis of Anthropological Knowledge in Islamic Civilization: The Contribution of Traveler Writings

Abstract

This research approaches the emergence of anthropological knowledge in Islamic civilization through the contribution of traveler writings, starting with the Arab-Islamic travel literature blog based on the principles and definitions of contemporary anthropology, in an effort to extract the foundations and early stages of knowledge of an anthropological nature in these writings, and to identify its most important features, with an indication of the most important problems, and the most prominent points of shortcomings and divergence with contemporary methodology. Starting from the fact that Western models, standards, and perceptions dominate the research methods in the humanities and the methods of writing in them, and then this is reflected in the results and outputs derived from them, so they are directed according to specific directions and no other possible directions, which limits our understanding of the surrounding phenomena, and calls for freedom from That control is the need to go back to the history of science and dig into its infancy so that we can find alternatives. Certainly, it is not expected that we will obtain completed scientific sciences and methodologies, but it is possible to identify the nuclei of methodologies that establish perspectives, starting points, and other methods in research and theoretical construction.