دو فصلنامه اسلام پژوهی
پیاپی 1 (پاییز و زمستان 1384)

Historical reality of Jaber b. Hayyan who has called himself Imam Sadeq’s student in many works attributed to him and referred to Imam Sadeq in many cases, questioned by Powel krows, The greatest scholar in Jaberian al chemy field. Powel krows extracted and discussed many contradictions in these notes and evidence, attributing to Jaberian collections. This essay seeks to explain four types of these evidences and notes of Jaber to Imam Sadeq through a historical and textual analysis then criticize and assess Powel krows’s view points about an important issue in history of science, that is, Jaberian Problem; and since most of scripts attributed to Jaber have not been published and are not available for scholars, so the dialogue remains open. It is expected that this article will be an answer to this Problem.

Phenomenology of prophecy and revelation its Varieties in Judaism and Christianity, purpose of Jewish prophecy, and Jesus Christ’s appearance in his prophetic activity, criteria through which one may find truth or falsity, credibility or non credibility of prophet’s calls for in Christianity and Judaism, and prophet authority in Christian and jewish religious traditions, elaborated and analyzed in two sections, respectively. The authores focusing on scriptures (Old Testament and New Testament), while attempt to present new Narration of this Christian and jews religious concept and awareness of structural differences between Christian prophecy and Jewish prophecy, insist on prophet mediation in both religions and in this way they seek harmonize some seemingly heterogeneous elements of the phenomen of prophecy and revelation in Judaism and Christianity, in both construction, and function, relatively.

This article elaborates direct and indirect points of Quran to Art and architecture. Then Quran effects and applications in Art and architecture are analyzed and pointed to some inscriptions buildings and their features. Finally, the author writes notes about utilizing artistic achievements in illuminating Quran.

For long, reality, sincerity and objectivity of Mowlavi’s gnostic experiences attracted experts attention. Whether he has possessed such experiences or not, and if so how are these experience and what has been its quality, and contain what cases, was questioned.With respect to variety of ideas on gnostic experience and mowlavi’s gnostic experiences, many studies implemented in this regard and the debate remains open. This essay calls for studying issue according to Mathnavi.Defining gnostic experience, it addresses backgrounds, causes, consequences and cases of Mowlavi’s gnostic experiences.

This Article investigates and compares Islam and Christianity meeting the issue of either ration or faith, and seeks to respond following questions: when we face religious statements, ration should be preferred or faith?How much credible is each of them? Have followers of other religions such as Christianity ever faced by such a problem? If so what did they do, and what is their viewpoints about ration and their definition of faith? And why did they side with ration or faith? What is the difference between thinkers on role of ration and faith in religion? And what solutions have been presented? Criticizing of proposed options and explaining of Islamic scientist’s faith and ration definitions, comparing them with findings of Christianity, demonstrating the difference between these two views, and finally presenting a definition of religion and using of its implications in order to respond above questions; is the intention of this essay.

Today identity and its related issues are very important for humanities and social scientist, The crisis of identity, identity conflict, identity change and their arised problem in this respect, constitute subtitle of identity. Religion (especially Islam in this essay) as a fundamental feature of human being civilization plays an essential role in constructing human’s identity. Religion identity analysis and religious person’s attributes are one of the necessaries in religion-searching. The impact of religion in human being’s behavior and religion teachings implications for life is not regarded alike. This essay analyses understandings of religion and its impact on human identity. Accordingly, variety of looking at religion results variety of religious identities. Generally, four major approaches are identified in religious identity analysis: Feqhi, moral, Ideological and gnostical life of religious man, based on each of these approaches, will have particular features. In this essay those features and differences of religious identities based on them have been analyzed.