... Without an acquaintance with the general truths of biology and psychology, rational interpretation of social phenomena is impossible. (customcollegeessays.com)
During the periods of eclipse, however, Muslims adhered to texts in their liberal form and closed the door against rational interpretation — ijtihad — in the fundamentals and the consequences of the Faith. (religion-online.org)
And this at once gave assurance of a wholly rational interpretation of its processes and the growing conviction that mechanism and materialism as a final reading of the nature of reality were indisputable. (religion-online.org)