The Application of Qualitative Content Analysis in Extracting Social Analyses of Quran: An Analytical Report on the Method of a Study

The investigation of the role which Islamic teachings can play in offering concepts, propositions and theoretical models in the realm of social sciences, as well as valid methods for achieving these elements are considered as two striking points, however, neglected in the extensive controversies concerning the status of Islamic doctrine in social sciences. The present paper, seeking to recognize the capacity (the combined strategy of) qualitative content analysis has brought for extracting social analyses of Quran and providing interdisciplinary validity of these analyses has tried to outline and present the components, processes and conditions for the implementation of the pre-mentioned method (and strategy) and the criteria for its validity, authenticity and reliability along with the measures and proceedings which have been adopted in the path to utilizing it in the studying and analysis of Quran's social approaches and making sense and validation of this type of analysis in Islamic sciences. Thus, this research paper besides proposing this method (and strategy) in a practical form, as an interdisciplinary and text-based research in Islamic and social sciences, brings forward a type of executive instruction for the researches which are designed, generated and manipulated in this field, specifically for the inferences of social perspectives of sacred texts of Islam