THEOLOGICAL- DOCTRIANAL RESEARCH (THE ISLAMIC SCIENCE QUARTERLY)
Year:2011 | Volume:1 | Issue:3|Papers Count:8

In The 20th century, the important developments in the history of science are: the first debate, positivism and Inductivism, the second debate , Karl Popper’s Refutationism and Lakatos’s research program, the third debate, Thomas Kuhn’s structuralism and relativism; and the forth debate, Hermeneutics . After dominating Hermeneutics in the field of philosophy of science, a fundamental development occurs in it’s methodology this paper is going to deal with the question whether Hermeneutics can be considered and used as a methodology in religious knowledge? The article claims that hermeutics can be used as methodology in religious sciences. It should be emphasize that such possibility has not fully put in practice yet.

This study is mainly about Imam Khomeini’s view regarding the world’s multiplicity. According to him the Divine essence as unity is unrecognizable since there is no Divine attributes. The reason of multiplicity in the realm of absolute unity is the manifestation of the Divine essence on itself and the next step is the manifestation of Divine essence on Divine attributes. These manifestations can make some concepts as: The Greatest name of God, Muhammadan reality (peace be upon him), determination, Divine Will, genetic argument, and some other mystical concepts about multiplicity of the world. Moreover, Imam Khomeini explains his view about the issue of multiplicity in his mystical books, particularly Mesbaholhedayeh.

Human being is the main concern and focus in philosophical, theological and mystical discussions. Historically, undrestanding of man can be traced back to greece and socrates. This paper aims to deal with Avicenna’ s views on man. The main argument is to demonstrate the follouing claim: Avicenna`s undrestanding of man is philosophically and mystically the same. His views on human being are divided into stages: philosophical and mystical. What is concluded here is that both views argue that the prefection of the soul will be achieved throgh its attachment to active intellect.

It is clear that Ghazali opposed philosophers. Considering the arguments of the intellectuals about the clarity of this opposition, the most popular explanation is the opposition of religion with wisdom, religion with philosophy, or theology with philosophy. Probably the reason for this interpretation is that Ghazali regarded himself as the defendant of Islam, so he excommunicated philosophers. The final inference out of his books reveals that he, as one of the standard-bearers of Islam considered some philosophers’ ideas, particularly Ibn Sina and Faraby as blasphemy, but it does not mean he believed wisdom, thought and philosophy were totally disbelief. His recognition, of course, as a single issue without extension can be true. While Ghazali introduces Ibn Sina and Farabi’s ideas as aspects of disbelief, there are doubts about the accuracy of this view, and the use of excommunication as the only solution to the problem. The discussion here is not for investigating the truth or falsity of these doubts, but preventing confused reasoning. The aim of this study is to clarify the issue that the opposition is mainly between a theological and a philosophical deduction of Islam.

This study is an attempt to investigate women’s permission to pass a judgment in the court which is a current trend and has always been important for Islam’s opponents to refer to it targeting Islamic values. Here we have investigated the scientific and legal bases of this religious order (women are not authorized to judge) and we want to see whether this view can be followed. We have considered different important sources available to critically analyze literature in this regard .Those who believe in the necessity of masculinity of a person who passes a judgment refer to various sources, narrations, consensus of arguments to support their own claim .However, analyses made on the arguments of religious authorities   revealed that there is no logical reason disallowing women to pass judgment. We can conclude that taking an unbiased look at this issue, for women possessing the related requirements, judgment cannot be denied. Rather we can allow them to pass a judgment to fulfill their responsibility of “joining the right and forbidding the wrong”.

Velayat has stages and rank, like fact and existence. Authority vela or spiritual vela is the highest step of velayat.it is a kind of super domination in object. to study on concepts and meanings of velayat, make it to understand better the word velayat in Quran and hadith which are mainly about prophet and imam. Other words may hardly have expanded meaning such as velayat.Velayat means being close, kind and supervisor. Allameh Tabatabaee besides that meaning also extracts governance and authority. Vali is one of god’s names human being should leads a clean life in order to be god’s vali. In this paper, authors tend to show “velayat” fram Allame Tabatabaie’s point of view.

There are different interpretations about the matter of attestation and its quality in Koran mainly related to the benefits of prophets and legatees’ testimony in the Judgment Day. However, according to some factual evidence from Koran and Tradition it seems true that the issue of witnesses in this world and their divine awareness about humans’ deed have some consequences in the world and provide the foundation for the creation of the world, the mission of messengers, and the appointment of God’s saints which mean guidance and perfection is only achievable by God, the Greatest. The witnesses have intermediary roles in the achievement of a sort of Divine Guidance as well as prophets who are Divine agents between humans and the Pure to receive and transfer God’s messages in the legislative guidance. This study first explains about different interpretations written under holly verses about attestation and then clarifies the selected one.