Insight-Giving about Values in the Holy Qur an, a New Approach to Investigating the Educational Styles of the Qur anic Stories

Storytelling is considered among the most prevalent methods of the Qur’an. This method is used heavily because it has such characteristics like tangibility, indirect inspiration of values and establishing close relationship with the addressee, and thus contributing to the increase in the impact on the addressee. Among the main axes which characterize Qur’anic stories, is insight-giving to the values. This paper seeks to investigate “how the Qur’an uses this method for insight-giving about values’’; that is, how the Qur’an uses stories for fostering keen awareness of the desirability of a certain issue and attracting peoples’ attention to its value.Using a descriptive-analytical method, the present paper investigates the way values are presented and expressed in the Qur’anic stories in order to provide a new classification of the Qur’an’s styles of insight-giving about values through storytelling.