فصلنامه مطالعات قرآنی
پیاپی 20 (زمستان 1393)

The “Qurʾānic Hermeneutics, Al-Ṭabrisī and the Quran Interpretation Skill” book written by Bruce Fudge is one of the latest works of orientalists about Emami‘s interpretation. The book studies indicate that in spite of Fudge's innovation and his effort in creation of some contexts of the book, there are some important shortcomings, lacks and faults in it. The aim of the present article – besides a hint to the content of the book and its strong and weak points – it criticizes some of the wrong points enjoying valid demonstrations and reasoning. Suspicions in different versions, contradictions and oppositions in the holy Quran, the lack of integrity resolving of Qurʾān, misinterpretation of some traditions and etc. are some of the discussed subjects in the present article.

The main aim of the present paper is to study the effects of Quran reciting education on the ability of Quran reading in mentally retarded male students. This applied study and quasi-experimental research was performed by pre- and post-tests with a control group. Testees were divided randomly into a control and an experimental group. Both group took the pre-test (Quran recitation) and then the necessary instructions were given to the experimental group, and again both groups took the post-test (Quran recitation). Findings of the present research indicate that Quran reciting education enhances the ability of educable mentally retarded students and reject the idea that they are incapable of reading Quran and learning.

The most fundamental presupposition in Quranic Studies from orientalist researchers view is that this book is not inspirational and is affected by the environment's culture. According to this an orientalist – Alexander Nisch – studied Quran incompletely and without considering its language and accurate witnesses in his book entitled "Cambridge Quran Instruction". By an analytical look at Quran understanding criteria and critical – analytical point of view these conflicts and divergences can be disproved and the completeness of Quran can be verified by Quran Tashri’ system.

One of the decent ethics that plays an important role in the perfection of all human being is honesty both in speaking and act which is one of the important bases in human societies. Basically the human nature is joined with honesty and if he remains in his nature he would go forward to excellence and would be free of mediocrity. However different factors such as education, environment and so on can stop human from evilness. The present article studies Quranic thoughts on accuracy, honesty and trustworthiness.

Ny studying the relative words with happiness in Quran it is found out that the application of relative vocabulary in Holy Quran in Meccan Suras are more than Medinan ones, perhaps that’s why the meanings of these suras could be understandable by their heart. The concept of happiness has manifestations and indications which have subdivisions that are somehow related to the word happiness. Each is a subdivision of real happiness but happiness cannot be meant completely. The present article attempts to find the stem of the happiness word in descriptive – analytical method.

Islamic life has different dimensions from Quran point of view which some of them are fundamental and infrastructure for the Islamic life and some are operational, behavioral and social approaches that play applicable and functional role in Islamic life. Thus Holy Quran promises a pure life to the ones who own such characteristics. Accordingly the present paper studies the pure life’s concept and its style and expressed some instructions in order to reach to the eternal life.

The present paper attempts to study the etymology of the word "Ignorance" and its derivatives in Quran, it evolution, meaning aspects, its applications against knowledge or wisdom and its relationship with synonyms or antonyms. As a result the subject is discussed in both "historical semantics" and "descriptive semantics" with the "descriptive analytical" method. In the Holy Quran, its derivatives have been repeated 24 times in both meanings, but are more related to the first meaning.

The aim of the present paper is to recognize the concept of Divine Obey and studies the development solutions in the Islamic University. Four investigative questions have been surveyed about its nature, kinds, prerequisites and solutions in the Islamic University. The method is descriptive – analytical which involves Holy Quran. Development of religious attitude, writing texts based on ideology and introducing obey patterns are some of the religious solutions as well as Islamizing the universities which is its social solution. The result is that the divine obey is one of the necessities of Islamic University.

Praying is one of the most important divine duties which the attempt to do it at the earliest time would result raise and elevation in life. The present paper tries to analyze the early praying by applying Quran verses. The method is descriptive – analytical and is non-experimental from data gathering and theoretical point of view. It is also qualitative and non-quantitative.