Confrontation of Criminal Policy in Iran with Islamic Political Philosophy (The Narrative of Non-existence or Existence of Meaning-Relationship)

Abstract

Discussing concepts such as indigenous criminal policy, indigenous criminology, indigenous philosophy, and others—when considering the existence and essence of scientific or extra-scientific (philosophical) concepts in an abstract space, devoid of interpretative approaches and ideological receptions— is condemned to rejection. Science, extra-science, and philosophy are always and everywhere the same thing! They have a systematic and specific essence and content that cannot be claimed to have various and contradictory kinds or existences based on time and geography. However, all of these can be studied from a specific perspective, a particular theory, or a political, religious, or need-based approach, and different understandings can be expected. These are two distinct categories. When confronted with the concept and application of criminal policy as a limited form of public policy, if the meanings and propositions constructed based on regional perspectives, which today, and historically, have constituted the internal and external structure of what is called Islamic political philosophy, are to be considered as the criterion, it is likely that we will encounter surprising positions in comparison to the concealment of criminal policy science in a scientific and ontological context. Therefore, the preliminary assumption of this article is that if such readings of the interpretations and meanings of the above terms (criminal policy - Islamic political philosophy) become entrenched in the mind, both the understanding of the initial foundations of these meanings (realities) and the narrative of their interaction and the confrontational influence they have on each other will be severely misunderstood and deviated. This paper, through a descriptive-analytical method, attempts to transcend the partisan, sectarian, and nature-averse views of these interpretations and will demonstrate that thoughts suggesting the existence of Iranian criminal policy and the existence of Islamic political philosophy, distinct from the transcendent, time-and-space-independent essence of these sciences, are fundamentally a cognitive and methodological error and a futile attempt to prove a non-existent matter, deserving of rejection and abandonment altogether.