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 ...

One of the new methods in the interpretation of the holy Qur'an is structural interpretation that has recently been given special attention. The method of structural interpretation is based on the theory of purposefulness of the Quran's Surahs. In order to provide a structural interpretation of a Surah, two steps should be taken; first, according to the scientific rules, it is necessary to disc...

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...

A text-based study on the systemic method in the verses of the reward of the Prophet's mission reveals that in the Qur'an the Imamate is mentioned as "zikrun li`l-alamin". It is possible to combine the verses of the Imamate with the use of the Qur'anic tradition, the reconciliation of the Qur'an and the itrat, and the existence of the last Imam beside the Qur'an. In the Quranic verses, the word...

One of the subjects of contemporary literary criticism is the intertextuality (Altanas) phenomenonthat generally means taking advantage of an earlier or contemporary text in speech. The poems of Maroof Abdul Majid, the contemporary Shiite Egyptianpoet,are distinguished for this feature. Among existing intertextualities in his poetry, Quranic intertextuality has allocated a considerable proporti...