Ma`rifat Eqtesadi

The question of the nature of Islamic economics has always been one of the concerns of researchers of Islamic economics. Although there have been many discussions about the nature of Islamic economics, no clear-cut answer is given to this question. The present paper makes further inquiry into the nature of the discipline of Islamic economics, classifying, examining, and criticizing the different approaches to defining the nature of Islamic economics. According to the classification, the approach to this discipline which the researchers of Islamic economics adopt are discussed in terms of subject, resource, end, and researcher. The research hypothesis is that cognition source – of course, full cognition sources represented in reason and the traditions according to Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli's interpretation- is a more rational and logical criterion for defining the identity of Islamic economics at this juncture. The author refers to the works about Islamic economics written in terms of aforementioned cognitive knowledge and introduces logical evidence in order to confirm the hypothesis.