پژوهشنامه معارف قرآنی
پیاپی 2 (پاییز 1389)

This study defines and identifies the role of wisdom in different verses andnarrations. Further, it examines the radical comments and critical notions. Thereviews are presented not only in a descriptive or narrative form, but also theanalysis has been made from the perspective of intellect itself. In addition, itaccounts for the roots of extremism and attempts to elucidate the significance ofintellect and avoids giving an extremist view so that we can benefit from ourintellect in a proper way.

Recording the historical events of the Israelites and making history are some of the most special and important actions of the Jews. Referring to the Jewish Holy Scriptures such as Torah (the Old Testament) reveals that they attempted to record the historical events of their ancestors, like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, and the others…. On the other hand, some of them had claimed to be the owners of the Promised and Sacred lands though their claims were not based on firm reasons. They sought to find the lands between the Nile and Euphrates rivers. "When Jews came to the Arabian Peninsula" and "Why they chose this land for living, a land which has no relationship with thePromised Land" are some questions that draw the many researchers’ attention. To this end, this study is aimed at examining and resolving these questions

“Women and the Qur’an” is the title of a paper written by Dr. Ruth Rodded in the Leaden encyclopedia of the Quran in the Netherlands. She has examined the characters of women like Eve (Peace Be upon Her), the queen of Sheba, and Zolaikha in a part of her article and through using some interpretations, narrations, and cases of revelations investigates and draws conclusions from the verses without explicitly citing their references or sources. Her subjects are more like Israelites rather than being authentic or reliable sources. These ideas and views, with regard to her specific presuppositions on Islamic studies and her methodology, should be reviewed and considered seriously.

Feminism emerged in the beginning of the seventeenth century as a movement to vindicate the women's rights. However, instead of defending the women's real rights, misused them as a means and had ungracious presuppositions like belittling the essence of women’s characters, believing in women's manhood, eliminating men from the society and transferring their affairs to women which all revealed a state of radical feminism that has threatened the women’s community. This study is to examine the abovementioned viewpoints and determine their possible weaknesses. In addition, it reviews the status of women and their real rights in religion in order to present the dominant situations in a large part of our rural and urban areas with an inappropriate culture of gender discrimination exerting the men’s dominance and treating women with a lot of authority and dominance. Meanwhile, many of the women’s legal and absolute rights are neglected.Demonstrating innumerable injustices against the religion and creating an improper image of women’s restrictions in religion have aroused serious doubts as to their legal laws or injunctions, including inheritance, legal custody, testimony, blood-money, and etc. This study sets out to briefly examine the aforementioned rights so that the Muslim women can precisely figure out the philosophy of these rights, regarding their spiritual rights to achieve their relief and respects, and maintain their dignity. More importantly, they can emancipate from the wrongdoers’ carnal desires and feministic thoughts.

The methodology and study of moral training methods are of great significance in the education system. This study is aimed at examining the methods of moral training in Nahjolbalaghe from the viewpoint of Imam Ali (PBUH). Wisdom, intellectual training, remembrance of God’s blessings, sermon, oration, taking lessons from the past experiences, applying psychological principles, calling people to the virtues and prohibition of the vice, obedience of God, meditation of God, assessing ones deeds andintrospection, and blaming oneself for disobeying God are among the most important methods of moral training in Nahjolbalaghe.

Love is an innate and natural need of man’s soul and he is always in search of somebody to be his beloved. Prayer or supplication, appearing in its highest form as worshiping‚ is in fact the most beautiful manifestation of love, the innate assets of man which originates from the heart of human soul. The affectionate prayers of the saints are samples of their endless love toward the presence of God and their deep insight toward that Divine Being. The uneasiness and frenzies are apparent in some of their prayers. Sahifeh Sajjadiah“The Prayer Collection of Imam Sajjad”, also called the Psalm book of Mohammad’s progeny‚ includes beautiful and everlasting prayers of Imam Sajjad (Peace Be upon Him). Likewise, in prose texts of Persian literature, the passionate love has lots of prominence and is the theme or content of many prayers. This study is an attempt to examine the traces of love and affection in the prayers of Imam Sajjad and Persian prose texts and provide an opportunity to compare them.

Khaje Nasireddin Tousi has played an important role in promoting and prospering the mystic thoughts. Avicenna's two great books of "Osaf Al Ashraf" and "Avicenna's Allusion" bear witness to the above mentioned fact. This book, though small in size, is very rich in terms of content, and Khajeh's mystic thoughts are well defended therein. He doesnt claim whatsoever to be a mystic or with extensive mystic experiences; however, he attempts to carry out an intellectual evaluation and a logical regulation of the ritual. Theaforementioned epistle has been organized into six episodes, each of which into six chapters except its chapter six. This study is aimed at shedding light on the first episode of the spiritual journey in Osaf Al-Ashraf.