A Study of Various Types of Relativism in Hossein Kachuyan’s Thought

Indigenous science and its relationship with religious science has drawn the attention of Muslim thinkers over the past few decades. Based on some of the readings of indigenous science, reason’s access to science, are quite indigenous and historical. This approach is normally classified in the category of epistemological relativism and pluralism and its application to issues related to religious science is considered in contradiction with Islamic epistemological principles.
However, it should be borne in mind that contrary to the prevailing secular approach which considers relativism as a general concept and traces its roots to the skepticism of sophists that was reproduced by postmodernists in different arenas, relativism is not a single totality and has various types. 
Hossein Kachuyan is a scholar of methodology of human-Islamic science, who by explaining man’s necessarily historical nature, maintains that reason and humanities are plural. This attention to essential indigenousness of humanities has prompted some alternative currents of religious science to accuse it as rejected relativism.
Attempts have been made in this research to precisely study different aspects of issue and make a distinction between what is known as relativism and rejected relativism and reasonable relativism. Also the social viewpoints of this Muslim thinker are explained to present a reading of his ideas so that his approach to indigenous science is not entangled in epistemological problems of various types of rejected relativism.