To begin with, this article takes a brief look at the western concept of economy and how it developed then, it examines the debates and disputes among the economists on the distinction between POSITIVE as well as normative ECONOMICS since its development and in this regard it gives a special emphasis to the role of values and value principles.After that the concept of economy in Islamic texts has been dealt with and it has been concluded that concepts such as scarcity, choice, and scarce resources management which underlie the current definitions of ECONOMICS can be inferred from them.With regard to Shahid Sadr’s view that there is a distinction between the ECONOMICS and an economic school of thought and that Islam has an economic school of thought rather than ECONOMICS, it reflects the same futile distinction between normative and POSITIVE. Acknowledging the difference between a school of thought and a science, the article concludes that the economic school of Islam can and should orient the ECONOMICS and Muslem economists and provide them with the necessary guidelines.

Clarification of definitions and functions of social sciences has important implications in our understanding about the nature and method of these sciences. This paper seeks to clarify the position of ideas about justice in the scientific effort of economists, by presenting an account about the nature of ECONOMICS. In this paper, based on analytical-theoretical approach, and of course, relying on the notions of innovative economists, attempts to redefine the nature of ECONOMICS. Accordingly, ECONOMICS is the science of studying how to deal with the conflict of interests, which, of course, this study is based on the “ scientist’ s or analyst’ s perspective about justice” . One of the implications of this point of view is to help understanding the collapse of the POSITIVE-normative ECONOMICS distinction; not only “ observations” , but “ theorizing” and “ providing scientific explanations” are influenced by “ the best way to deal with the conflict of interests in the view of the economic or researcher or analyst” . Ultimately, this article criticizes the famous distinction of “ science-school” in the literature of Islamic ECONOMICS.

In the conventional economy there is a conflict about the separation of normative and POSITIVE economies. In this paper, we examine the question of whether in Islamic ECONOMICS, a similar distinction can be drawn and, if possible, what is the relationship between them? According to the hypothesis of the article, Islamic ECONOMICS can be considered as a combination of two continuum theoretical and normative ECONOMICS. The findings of this analytic-based research show that Islamic ECONOMICS analyzes the organization of economic activities in order to achieve the goals of the Islamic economic system and solving the progressive economic problems (normative Islamic ECONOMICS) on the basis of economic realities (POSITIVE Islamic ECONOMICS). According to this, the normative Islamic economy is responsible for assessing the situation and advising economic structures and policies; the Islamic ECONOMICS also provides evidence for economic forecasting. In practice, there is a kind of reciprocating between normative and providential Islamic ECONOMICS. The normative Islamic ECONOMICS provides the basis for scientific analysis by identifying the institutional structures. Analytical evidence of Islamic ECONOMICS can improve the normative ECONOMICS in the al-Faraq area.

The topic of "religious science" has been one of the challenging points in the literature of religious studies in recent decades. Different theories have been put forward by Muslim scholars about its quiddity, its feasibility, its methodology and its realization. “ Islamic ECONOMICS” , as one of the most important examples of human religious science is no exception. Some thinkers have accepted the scientific identity of Islamic ECONOMICS, while others have sought to deny it. In this paper, we analyze the feasibility of Islamic ECONOMICS by using an analytical method. According to the research hypothesis, a large number of Islamic ECONOMICS propositions, in addition to their doctrinal nature, have a scientific identity. These statements constitute the content of Islamic ECONOMICS. According to the research findings, the feasibility of Islamic ECONOMICS can be demonstrated by three reasons for the necessity of a POSITIVE ECONOMICS for the realization of Islamic doctrines, the existence of descriptive ECONOMICS statements in Islamic narrative sources, and the influence of Islamic doctrinal principles and basics on economic behavior.

In traditional ECONOMICS, there are some disputes over the distinction between POSITIVE and normative ECONOMICS. The current paper criticizes this dichotomy with a particular view to the ideas of Shahid Sadr. Attention to Sadr's view on the connection of normative and POSITIVE ECONOMICS contributes to the better understanding of the entry of values in ECONOMICS. The results of the study, which is done by using an analytical approach, show that while the dual POSITIVE-normative dichotomy is different from the dual doctrinal-science dichotomy, there have some similarities. From Sadr's view point, economic science is equivalent with POSITIVE ECONOMICS. Doctrinal ECONOMICS looks like normative or evaluative ECONOMICS in sense that it engages in evaluations on the base of justice. Doctrinal ECONOMICS deviates from normative ECONOMICS by addressing ideal institutional structures and policy making. Regardless of the similarities and differences of the dual dichotomies, Sadr's attention to the link between doctrinal and scientific studies contributes to the better understanding of the entry of values in POSITIVE ECONOMICS. According to Sadr, scientific economic analyses are based on an institutional framework, which is supported by an economic system. Such an institutional framework causes the POSITIVE analyses to have a value flavor.