MASNAVI, the Persian masterpiece of 7th century is among the literary books which while being from ancient times but at the same time from many different aspects  very fresh and modern. One of the very valuable researches about this very exquisite book has been the detection of differences and distinguishing based on sources and references of this book. This research has analytically compared...

One of the widely spread and frequently practiced rituals in the Islamic society is consulting Allah or asking favour, a varied behavior in different forms with a long history in Islamic culture. The main forms of this ritual are transmitted but some of them are not. Accordingly, each of them has an origin and in the passage of time has changed. The variety of the forms of consulting Allah and ...

One of the most important Islamic sciences is Fiq al-hadith. Hadith is the second source of knowing Islam without which this Divine religion cannot be understood. Fiqh al-hadith helps us to recognize the meanings of hadiths. On the other hand, using the texts of hadiths without being familiar with special necessary foundations may cause deviation. Accordingly, Islamic scholars tried hard to cod...

Some scholars believe that sunnah is as authoritative as the Quran and consider sunnah to be independent while being able to seek help from the Quran about the issues on which the Quran is silent. This theory is contrary to the view of Allameh Tabatabaei and his student Ayatollah Javadi Amoli, who believe that the authority of sunnah originates from the Quran and sunnah is not as authoritative ...

One of the topics of interest to the Orientalists in the field of history of hadith and jurisprudence is the common link theory which deals with serious and various problems in jurisprudential documents and narrations. Some of these problems are: the common link of narrators, family documents, involvement of too old narrators in documents, back-ward growth of documents and argument from silence...

The present article has considered the methods of Tustari in "Qamus-al-Rejal" about recognition and correction the distortions in "Tanqih al-maqal" by Allameh Mamqani and categorizes them by saying examples. Tustari's method for discovery and correction these distortions included two levels: in first level by criterions like narrations variances, disharmony in class narrator...