More than 700 verses of the holey Quran refer to such scientific fields as ontology, physics and biology. Muslim commentators, therefore, have attended to scientific comment of Quran to prove scientific statements in it. Increasing development of experimental sciences and technology during last century caused commentators pay much attention to scientific comment of Quran. Partowi az Quran, a Qu...

Diversity of commentators' opinions about explanation of polytheism along with the claim that verse 221 of  Al-Baqara is obsolete and discusses the subject of avoiding marriage with polytheists, has added to the difficulty of understanding this verse. According to the prevalent attitude among the Fariqain commentators about this problem, there is no problem regarding marrying the people of the ...

Quranic commentators have used different approaches one of the most ancient of which can be the literary one. Quranic eloquence and rhetoric are counted as miracle aspects of Quran. Some commentators, therefore, have sought to comment Quran literally to make Divine intention clear. This paper intends to study Al-Kashshaf and At-Tafsir Al-Bayani respectively by Zamakhshari and Bent Ash-Shati`a c...

All commentators have known all Qur'anic cases of the word salih as referring to salah in practice and viewed one doing any deed of salah as salih. Some commentators, however, regarding some Quranic cases of salih that describes prophets as salih as well as the demand of some prophet of God to put them among salihan, have known salih as being a particular position, that is essential salah not b...