مجله تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث
سال دوم شماره 1 (پیاپی 3، بهار و تابستان 1384)

One of the verses of Qur'an that has rosen many serious questions is the verse 34th of sura al-Nisa' concerning corporal punishment' of women. Commentators of Qur'an, from the first era, were concerned about its translation, interpretation and explaining the reason [or it. Some of the exegeses, accepting the enforcement of this rule, have tried to clarify its reason. But others stipulated its practice to social and cult ural circumstances. In this article seven viewpoints on this verse have been quoted and examined.

One or the questions which Muslims arc concerned about is "why Qur'an that had once been a mean to power and an authority for solving disputes in the early centuries, has now become subject to the most severe disputes? and if muslims are followers or Qur'an why arc they so divided?" According to pro-unity commentators such as 'Alliimi Tabiitabayi and .s.hay15h Muhamrnad 'Abdu, these problems go back to some commentators' way or interpretation by which they have tried to relate their different knowledge to Qur'an. Each of them have claimed that Qur'an affirms what they say. The pro-unity commentators believe that by interpreting Qur'an through Qur'an itself, it is possihle to release it from the disagreements of commentators and bring it hack once again to all aspects of personal and social life of a Muslim.

Qur'an has been revealed gradually in order to guide human beings. How had this revelation began and with which verses, are questions to which commentators and Qur'an researchers have given different answers. In this article different views have been examined; three of them criticized and the forth confirmed. These are as follows: 1) The five beginning verses of sura al-A1agh; 2) Sura al-Hamd; 3) Sura al-Muddathir; 4) The chosen standpoint according to which the revelation of Qur'an had started with "Basmala".

It is usually believed that women transmitters have not narrated many hadiths and if they had, they were only about juridical laws concerning women. A thorough research on the Holy Prophet’s (SA WA) .hadiths shows that this is not right. The Prophet’s (SAWA) wives and women companions had an effective role in transmitting traditions on women's laws and educational, moral, political, legal, ritual and defensive subjects. This article, on the role of women in transmitting the Prophet's (SAW A) Hadiths, is an extract from an extensive research about women transmitters and their narrations. Fourteen persons, after the number of the fourteen infallibles (AS) whose name were between Alif to Dill in Arabic alphabet, have been chosen. These had the most number of hadiths on different subjects.

Forbearance and tolerance are ethical principles that influence different aspects of personal and social life. Although the necessity of exercising it in personal life is obvious, its significance in politics and state is in dispute and needs to be studied precisely. Imam Ali (AS) as a divine governor has clearly and without any vagueness defined many features of governing in his words and performance. It is necessary to study this issue as one of the ethnical aspects of Imam's administration, in order to be a guide for all the statemen and officials to modify their approach and performance, following His example.

In this article, the Persian translation of Ignas Goldziher's famous book, entitled "Exegesis approaches to the Qur'an among MUSlims", converted from Arabic, has been examined. At first some mistakes, misinterpretation and vague phrazings, in the Arabic or Persian or both translations have been mentioned. Then a brief account of the book and its six sections have been introduced. These are accordingly: early Islamic commentaries, traditional exegeses, that of Mu'tazila and Asha'ira and their differences, Mystic ones, Shia exegeses and that of reformists such as 'Ahdu and Sayyid Djamal Afghani. Moreover, some of Goldziher's misunderstandings and his attempts to rise discordance among the Muslim sects hare been mentioned. His views on deviant recitation of Qur'an which have not been recorded in authoritative recitation books, have been criticized.