Commentators have offered various views on the Quranic sentence: "Say: Even though ye had been in your houses, those appointed to be slain would have gone forth to the places where they were to lie. On the well-known view, those killed when fighting are killed in their own death time. The question here is whether killing in war is an unavoidable fate for the victim. Does avoidance from the case...

Inferential method of Quranic commentary has been regarded a kind of commentary along with other methods such as those of Quran to Quran and Quran to tradition. The holy Quran includes reasonable proofs and in many verses call up us to think, reasoning and meditation. Using the power of reason and reasonable tokens in Quranic commentary is rooted in the tradition of the Prophet (s) and His hous...

Intertextuality, introduced following linguistic researches in the West, is a newly coined term that refers to an old notion and was previously known in terms like: citation, adaptation, borrowing and mimesis. Most of the Muslim poets have been inspired by Quran since it has always been a source of inspiration for them, opening new horizons in front of their eyes. Thus, using Quranic verses has...

Quranic inscriptions are the inseparable elements of mosque ornaments, promoting the Islamic culture and reflecting the socio-political conditions of the given era. Due to its importance and vastness together with several structural periods and the volume of decorations, Jameh Mosque of Isfahan is one of the structures containing most of the historical religious inscriptions related to Iranian ...

Innate reason is one of the theological reasons on which the Holy Quran has emphasized. Innate character has various tendencies like tendency to absolute perfection. The verses denoting God-seeking nature of human being could be classified into four: those denoting innate character clearly, those introducing the Prophets as reminders, those saying that a group of polytheists, in spite of their ...

By exceptional verses is meant makki verse in madani chapter and madani verse in makki chapter. There cannot be found any reference to this theory in sources in first and second century of Hijri. In the third, however, it was found on a small scale; in the next two centuries, the number of the cases increased gradually and in the sixth and seventh it came to its ultimate point. Therefore, there...