PAZHUHESH-DINI (RELIGIOUS STUDY)
Year:2005 | Volume:- | Issue:9|Papers Count:7

Thematic unity relation and interconnection of verses of one Quranic chapter is among significant Quranic discussions. Thus, there have always been some Quranic commentators who, despite manifest anxiety, intended to indicate that such verses are completely and incredibly harmonized, unified, and interconnected and thereby prove that problems raised against order and regulation of them are weak and unstable. Al-Sayyidal-Qutb, author of Fi Dhilal Al-Quran, has performed a great job as well as a remarkable effort in this connection in such a way that thematic unity in Quranic chapters is among most fundamental essentials of his method presented in an orderly, widespread, and interesting manner in his book. This essay intends to investigate and expound the way in which that subject is presented in that book due to both significance of such a discussion and its expansion in Fi Dhilal Al-Quran.

Among those who made remarkable studies concerning Quran in the past centuries and especially in the present time are Orientalists. Orientalists are not at the same level with respect to their purposes and motivations and as a result in their thoughts and scientific works; rather, they consist of a vast spectrum of hostile malicious to fair researcher. Orientalists' Quranic studies are often based on principles and criteria whose results become unacceptable to Muslims. This essay is an attempt in order to present chief purposes and functions of Orientalists in their Quranic studies as well as a description of necessity of its pathology.

In the Holy Quran there are numerous verses in which multiplicity of heavens (samawat) is mentioned. Based on different presuppositions, various perspectives are brought about concerning such verses presupposition of one of which to be surveyed in this essay with an explanation of its relevant perspective. Investigations of the present essay indicate that by heavens (samawat) is meant the very heaven observed by men in which occur clouds and rain, day and night, moon, sun, stars, etc.

The present essay deals with comparative study of the story of Adam after his creation and the forbidden tree in the third chapter of Genesis and the Holy Quran attempting to bring perspectives of those two books closer to one another through presenting a commentary of such phrases of the two books which can be harmonized, without any prejudice, in order to find common points, reduce apparent differences, and indicate non-distortion of Torah unless when perspectives of the two books can in no way be unified.

The present essay discusses lawfulness or unlawfulness of eating animals slaughtered by people of the Book (Ahl al-Kitab) from both Shiite and Sunni perspectives with a full consideration of Quranic verses as well as all respective hadiths which can be divided into four categories. In this connection the juristic perception of slaughter by automatic machines in present times is also surveyed.

The present essay merely deals with religious art and investigates the realm of religious art in Hafez's sacred expressions without being concerned with any discussion of nature of art, numerous definitions of this mysterious term, and the relation between art and beauty.

According to the sociology of culture, when development, its purposes, and the ways leading to it in human societies are discussed, scientific directions appear through presentation of empirical, pragmatic models from specific cultural perspectives with respect to form and structure of societies. Although such subjects as development, business, technology, etc. may be considered through various perspectives, it is attempted in the present essay to investigate such institutionalized realms of social culture as family, education, media and their role in social norms with respect to divine, spiritual teachings of Quran and hadiths.