Determination of the date of the Qur’an in Iran

Date determination of the Qur’an and knowing the time and the historical level of Qur’anic verses and surahs is one of the most important issues of the day in the field of Qur’anic science. Contemporary Iranian Qur’anic scholars have researched in this field, which is divided into two major groups of textualists and those scholars who get knowledge derived from oral tradition. In this article, while outlining the above views, and by examining their date determination methods, which includes "tonal-thematic ", "thematic", "mathematical-statistical", "pure narrative" and "text-based”, it is concluded that the most reliable way in date determination of the Qur’an is " narration relying on the text ".