Allāme Tabātabāii has paid special attention to applying narrations in the interpretations of the Holy Qurān. In his famous interpretation of Quran, Allāme Tabātabāii posed the issue of "narrative debates". Through assessing the narrations from fiqh al-hadith perspective and investigating the supply of narrations on the interpretation of Holy Qurān with regard to the rule of context, he analyze...

The verse “Yet ye will not, unless Allah willeth” has been discussed and investigated in different interpretative and theological periods. For some commentators and theologians this verse points to “fatalism” and for some others it entails “human free will under the auspices of the Devine Will”. Semantic analysis of the verse with an emphasis on the commentaries reveals that the commentators’ i...

The problem-oriented approach is one of the efficient methods of “contemplation in Quran”. This approach is applied as opposed to the subject-oriented and concept-oriented approaches. Historical analysis of the commentators’ appeal to the verse 97 Surah An-Nahl shows that lack of having the problem-oriented approach has led to the fact that many of them ignored this verse without making any com...