language is the most important medium for communication among human beings to express their intensions and concepts ; and all languages possess one or more specific styles through which the author(s) can influence the addressee's and audience's souls and minds. accordingly , connoisseurs of oration arena have propounded criteria and styles to assess speech value , and they have enumerated the q...

such elements as water, earth, creatures like plants and animals, and balanced biological relations among them comprise the natural order. such a rich resource is a grand divine bounty bestowed upon living creatures, so that while all creatures enjoy and use these resources, human beings would be able to develop land and earth, and provide all with a suitable habitat. thus the right to use such...

ethan kohlberg, the jewish orientalist and specialist on shi‘a, sees the distortion in holy scriptures, including quran, inevitable. from his point of view, some quranic verses confirm this point. his second proof is the history of the quran and the time when its whole text was written down. in his viewpoint,   hadiths which prove that the quran had been written down in abu bakr’s time ore orie...

prominent contemporary jurist and commentator, ayatollah khu’i opines a comprehensive theory about the naskh in al-bayan. he challenges all claims of naskh in quran by setting some conditions, except in one case. considering that the concept of naskh is not an optional concept and it has religious effects, it can be expanded or restricted only with valid evidence and foundations. in this paper,...

topic of divine order arrangement of the verses in chapters of the qoran always has been discussed with quranic scholars and this topic has pros and cons in throughout history. in this discussion that has root in historical, traditional sources and sometimes theological sources the traditions has significant place, and independent investigation of these traditions can have a significant effect ...

suggests mohammed arcon - researcher algeria at the university of sorbonne - new approaches to the understanding and interpretation of the koran are alternative approaches muslim commentators and has views of strange in some verses of the koran contradicts what muslims are unanimously agreed among his views interpreted the meaning and erased mentioned in verse twelve nisa hamaah any wife of a s...

sobhi mansour, in the book al-quran va kafa masdara li al-tashri' al-islami, tries to introduce the quran as the single source of islamic legislationaccording to quran itself and therefore to prove the lack of authority of traditions.he maintains that according to quranic verses, quran is a complete andcomprehensive book, has declared itself to be sufficient for the guidance, and hasforbid...