پژوهشنامه معارف قرآنی
پیاپی 4 (بهار 1390)

Of great interest to the scholars of ethics and literature has been the concept of speech etiquettes. Speech is one of the voluntary acts of the human beings manifested as a result of his personal motives. The purpose of dealing with speech etiquettes is to provide rules for the proper form of contemplation and subsequently rules for elegant speech. There is an interrelated relationship between the two; as one with elegant thoughts puts his thoughts into elegant words. The present study deals with the significance of speech and the manner of articulation in the view of the holy Quran, the relationship between speech and one’s inner character, as well as the major rules and etiquettes of speech from the perspective of the Quran and traditions.

This study aims to examine the economic ethics from the perspective of the Holy Quran in terms of production, distribution, and consumption. Our findings indicate that the moral principles of production are categories such as belief in the divine will, belief in the divine sustenance, and human labor. In the realm of distribution, the holy Quran insists on some principles such as fairly exchanges, avoid doing forbidden things like gavel, lying, hoarding, and observing justice in all acts. Finally, the principles of economic ethics in the field of consumption can be categorized into three groups: A) excessiveness, like profusion, avidity, and preoccupying with temporal things, B) prodigality, like jealousy, and C) mediocre affairs like abstinence, generosity, continence, and donating to the charity.

The problem of evil and the mystery of its existence were and are still a continuous issue in philosophical discussions. All religions of the world and philosophical schools of thought have been involved with this problem and many different responses have emerged and proposed depending on their world view. Muslim philosophers have paid a significant and more serious attention to the issue. In addition, in the light of Quran and Sunnah various explanations and reasonable interpretations have been given. This study is aimed at dealing with the problem of evil. Furthermore, it attempts to give a rational understanding and solution to the problem of evil on the basis of Imam Ali`s teachings and narrations.

Value is an essential and inseparable part in any decision and policymaking. Likewise, it plays a very significant part in the process of policymaking and the way people adopt policy. This study has attempted to examine the role of Islamic values, chiefly trust and piety, in the political policymaking through the use of contents analysis method. Further, it has focused on the effects and advantages of trust and piety in the political policymaking.

This study is an attempt to briefly review, though with acuity, the book titled “Political History of Islam” (Biography of the Prophet). The major goal is to incite the writer to pay adequate attention to his invaluable works and thus revise them in terms of content, literary, and formal errors. Thereby, this study can contribute to the process of reviewing and criticizing aimed at development and reform in science and knowledge. The present study focuses on the following issues: Content analysis, including contradictions in narration of historical facts, undue negligence in elaborating some essential or controversial issues in the history of Islam, etc; methodological analysis, including reliability of Sunni traditions and narratives on significant events of the Islamic history, etc; literary as well as morphological analysis; editing analysis which comprises the most urgent necessity in this book resulting from the high frequency of errors of this type which may in certain parts of the book necessitate the overall revision or rewriting. In all, while this study enumerates some editing rules, it provides the readers with the problematic areas which need to be taken into consideration. While absolute accuracy is not claimed, the intention is to provide the statements closest to the true value, hopefully.

“Saghifeh Banny Saedeh”; the event which happened in 11 A.H. has caused deep changes in the trend and direction of social culture of Muslims. The history of this event has been studied by various researchers from different perspectives. Some of these studies consider this event as an unexpected event and without prior planning. On the other hand, others have claimed that it was designed by a group of Ansar in which a group of Mohajerin had participated in without planning and finalized it to their advantage. The purpose of this study is to present the historical resources, mainly the Sonnits’ resources, and prove that “Saghifeh Banny Saedeh” event happened based on a careful and well-designed planning.

It is reputed that kufa, whose history will be dealt with briefly, was established in the second decade AH. However, there are substantial narratives that reveal that Kufa and some special parts of it which are against our eyes today like Kufa and Sahle mosque have a history as old as the human history and since the time of prophet Adam (peace be upon him) a particular attention has been given to these areas. With the establishment of Islamic Kufa, this attention has experienced a mutation and the peak of these changes will appear at the end time when it is chosen as the capital of the Imam Mahdi`s government. This study is defined as a sort of monograph in the field of historical geography studies which are considered as the sub-branches of Islamic history and civilization discipline. This study is an attempt to put a different perspective on the history of this city by utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and using many different narrations. According to the narratives and hadiths utilized in this study and from the perspective of Islam, it can be claimed that Kufa is one of the Islamic cities which requires numerous studies. Through doing more serious studies and researches like this about Mahdavi and Shiite approach of the policymaking, these studies can complement some parts of the Shiite studies and researches.