INTERDISCIPLINARY QURANIC STUDIES
Year:2013 | Volume:4 | Issue:1|Papers Count:6

In this paper, by studying Persian gardens, particularly in the Islamic period, and examining its general characteristics of the physical environment (water, plants, etc.), the elements of garden has been studied. Then by exploring the text of the Qur’an, especially Ensan Surah and its related interpretations, Quranic paradise elements has been reviewed in the elements of Dolat Abad garden. The review has been done through Structural-spatial analysis of Dolat Abad garden and adopting them with quranic concepts.The purpose of this study was to extract the common blessings of the Garden of Eden with the Dolat Abad garden. Techniques used in this research are descriptive-analytical. Data was collected through visiting, field harvesting and library and comparing them with the quranic interpretations. The results show that the elements of a Persian garden have been referred to as Heaven’s blessings. These blessings have remained some material and spiritual metaphors both in the body of the garden and its designer believes either objectively or subjectively.

Acoustic features of each language form the nature of the human languages. According to the linguists’ theories, sounds are the most important ingredients of language that man, according to them, use to organize his own mind’s concepts. So they consider phonetic topics as the first step in it’s explanation. There is no doubt that the Quran, the great miracle of the prophet, of the phonetic perspective, words and syntax aspect is unique. And even it’s smallest acoustic unit has a great semantic value and the most important methodological peculiarity of the Quran is that sounds are according to meanings and appropriate to verses.As a result There are many verses in the Holy Quran such as: resurrection incidents, and the respective scenes, that describe the status and features of the people. In the image processing, sounds and noises arose from the arrangement and composition of the sounds play a considerable role in displaying the meanings. For example, when it spokes about earthquakes of the resurrection and it’s crushed mountains, The Quran used mostly the characters such as “Q” and “K” to show horrific images by sounds.

Architecture is a phenomenon related to mankind and should be materialized accordingly. Thus, studying human being as the base of cognition in this science is inevitable. That is why it is important to understand the degrees of architecture in relation to man’s degrees of being.On the other hand, as definition of man and how he is perceived sometimes greatly vary, differences in understanding of architecture would also be natural. From this standpoint, this paper tries to shed light on the nature of mankind based on the teachings of the Holy Quran and Islamic wisdom as the epistemic system governing the research. It investigates the relationship resulting from this understanding in relation with architecture in different degrees. That, in turn, leads to classification of architecture in proportion to mankind’s ontological structure.This paper draws the structure of man’s being in three realms of nature, instinct and Fitrat and in three levels of body, soul and Nafs (self). Then, architecture’s levels are arranged in correlation with these realms and levels to come to levels such as building, shelter, environment, space and place.

The issue of Jihad, given its sensitivity and its extensive effects on the political, social, and cultural developments in Muslim societies, has been the subject of many analyses which have produced many different views. Some have considered Jihad as a military measure and likened it to Qital (fighting). Others, taking a minimal approach, have only taken into account the defensive aspects of Jihad.This is while a look into the verses of the Holy Quran and a study of the typology of different kinds of Jihad in Isla, shows that the concept has always been mentioned as a general, absolute and soft strategy aiming to establish, secure and maintain the Islamic style of life, and that the concept has found various manifestations in line with this goal.Looking at different types of Jihad the pertaining strategies mentioned in the Quran indicates that God’s purpose of clarifying this concept is bringing change in man’s nature and, as a result, changing his worldview and ideology in order to secure the presence of Muslim individuals and societies on the path of guidance and Tawhid (monotheism) and, ultimately, to draw up the monotheistic style of life based on the principle of Jihad.In this paper, the conceptual foundations of the research have been defined and after identifying different types of Jihad in the Quran and clarifying the strategy of each of them, a pattern has been presented for achieving the Islamic style of life.

Determining a perspective and drawing bright horizons for growth and elevation is the first and most basic step for achieving an ideal structural design in any organization and institution.For all the efforts made to lead universities to their proper status in our Islamic country and the issue of Islamization of this holy institution, enough attention has not yet been paid to drawing a perspective for this institution based on Islamic teachings.This paper tries to review the key topics in the concept of Islamic university’s perspective, prominent features of Islamic university, and the criteria of Islamic university’s perspective. It tries to draw the perspective and proper image of this institutions based on the analysis of Quranic verses.This research introduces Islamic university as an institution with three fundamental characteristics; scientific identity, Islamic direction and religious identity, and usefulness and service. The paper presents Islamic university’s proper perspective comprising the criteria of wisdom, competence, goodness and beauty, and clarifies its pattern and depicts its Islamic structure and framework.

Man’s health in all areas is deeply affected by his lifestyle. On the other hand, lifestyle and actions and conducts originate from man’s mental and psychological processes and his style of thinking. The locus of control of man’s character is among personality traits that significantly affect the way one thinks and behaves.Research findings show that many of men’s problems and troubles are rooted in a belief in external control on individuals. But what affects does internal control have on individuals? Does external control not have any positive effects.A study of Quranic concepts, especially those related to the issue of determinism and free will point to the fact that Quranic discourse rules out absolute free will on the one hand and considers limited effects from external determinism on individuals, on the other. Hence, Quran’s view of the locus of control is something in the middle of internal and external control.