Editing Ali Shariati (section)

===Shariati and socialism===
It seems that his eagerness to explore [[socialism]] began with the translation of the book ''[[Abu Dhar al-Ghifari|Abu Zarr]]: The God-Worshipping Socialist'' by Egyptian Abdul Hamid Jowdat-al-Sahar. According to this book, Abu Dhar was the very first socialist.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qh_QotrY7RkC&q=Abu+Zarr%3A+the+socialist+God+worshiper&pg=PA465 |title=Iran Between Two Revolutions |last=Abrahamian |first=Ervand |date=21 July 1982 |publisher=Princeton University Press |page=465 |isbn=0691101345 |access-date=25 May 2017}}</ref> Then, Shariati's father declared that his son believed that the principles of Abu Dhar are fundamental. Some described Shariati as the modern Abu Dhar in Iran.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCVsR1cJc7oC&q=+shariati |title=Radical Islam: The Iranian Mojahedin |author=Ervand Abrahamian |year=1989 |page=106 |publisher=I.B.Tauris |isbn=1850430772}}</ref> Of all his thoughts, there is his insistence on the necessity of revolutionary action. Shariati believed that [[Marxism]] could not provide the [[Third World]] with the ideological means for its own liberation. One of his premises was that Islam by nature is a revolutionary ideology. Therefore, Islam could relate to the modern world as an ideology. According to Shariati, the historical and original origin of [[human]] problems was the emergence of private ownership. He believed that in the modern era, the appearance of the machine was the second most fundamental change in the human condition. Private ownership and the emergence of the machine, if considered one of two curves of history, belong to the second period of history. The first period is collective ownership. However, Shariati gave a critique of the historical development of religion and the modern philosophical and ideological movements and their relationship to both private ownership and the emergence of the machine.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite thesis |last=Manouchehri |first=Abbas |title=Ali Shariati and The Islamic Renaissance |type=PhD dissertation |publisher=University of Missouri |year=1988 |page=78}}</ref>

====Epistemology====

Shariati developed the idea of the social, cultural and historical contingencies of religious knowledge in sociology.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He believed in the earthly religion and the social context in which the meaning of society is construed. He also emphasised that he understood religion historically because he was a sociologist. He said he was concerned with the historical and social [[Tawhid]], not with the truth of the Quran or of Muhammad or Ali.<ref>Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Abdolkarim Soroush, The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Politics, Edited by John L. Esposito and Emad El-Din Shahin, online pub date: Dec 2013</ref>