Opening Editorial of the First Issue, 2016

Abstract

The Journal of Social and Human Sciences proceeds with deliberate and purposeful steps, aiming to make a serious contribution to spreading culture and awareness among citizens of all segments and intellectual levels. It seeks to advance the course of culture and thought forward, despite the difficult circumstances and the forces pulling backward. Nevertheless, the belief in its true role in promoting awareness, culture, and intellectual development drives it, with determination, to persist in giving and to resume its activity. This is grounded in its wide scope and its long history that extends for no less than half a century. Throughout this period, the Journal has contributed to the dissemination of intellectual, scientific, cultural, educational, and social research and thought. It has provided researchers and scholars with vast horizons of knowledge and numerous opportunities to support and spread it. While we hope that its pioneering journey continues, we also look forward to the many additions it will bring to social life and the current reality—towards stability and active participation in cultural and intellectual development—making life more secure and less burdened by what disturbs its serenity or obscures its vision. In this issue, readers will find studies and research addressing education, culture, society, thought, economy, historical interpretation and philosophy, as well as discussions on the foundations of Islamic legislation and other topics that this Journal has regularly presented to students, researchers, readers, and thinkers—indeed to all who are interested in the pursuit of knowledge and the building of the human being in our beloved homeland, for which we hope progress, safety, and stability. In this regard, we call upon our esteemed readers to enrich us with their contributions, research, and observations, which we regard as essential foundations upon which the activity of this Journal is built. We always aspire to what they promise us of intellectual, cultural, and scientific contributions, for they are the true nourishment that fuels the knowledge and thought this Journal seeks to produce.