نشأة المعرفة الأنثروبولوجية في الحضارة الإسلامية : مساهمة كتابات الرحالة

الملخص EN

Western models, standards, and perceptions dominate research methods in the humanities, and therefore this is reflected in the results and outputs derived from them, so they are directed according to specific directions and not other possible directions, and this limits our understanding of the surrounding phenomena.

disengaging from that control needs us to return to the history of science and research in its early stages and beginnings, so that we can find alternatives.

it is not expected that we will certainly obtain complete scientific methodologies, but it can be found on the nuclei that establish perspectives and other methods of research and theoretical construction.

from this standpoint, the study came to search in the literature of Arab Islamic trips, based on the concepts and definitions of contemporary anthropology, in order to extract the foundations and beginnings of anthropological knowledge in these writings, and to define their most important features, with an indication of the most important problems, and the most prominent shortcomings and separations with the contemporary methodology.