guardianship is a magnificent term and concept that, regarding its verbal and terminological meanings, has different levels in the quran and narrations, and has ties with a variety of concepts. at one level, guardianship is exclusively for god, and at a lower level, this position has been bestowed upon the prophets and imams by the sublime god’s permission. the latter level guardianship is cond...

properties that may or may not be instantiated, while a possible world is a set of abstract states of affairs (or propositions) that may or tnay not obtain (or be true). More precisely, a possible person is a maximal compossible set of properties each of which could be possessed by a single person. The set is compossible in that it admits of the logical possibility of coinstantiation by a singl...

the subject of womanhood is an attempt to explain why the woman is a symbol of self. i will start the paper with the story of “a’arabi and the caliph” from the view point of symbol and then i will continue with the definition of self, symbol, why the woman is a symbol of self as it is believed by mystics. the allegorical result based on najm razi’s theory shows the accompaniment of self with wi...

based on an immanent religious approach, the present article is an attempt to answer the following two questions: can freedom be studied from a quranic viewpoint? how can freedom be analyzed according to the quran within a specific theoretical framework? the study of the quranic verses asserts that the quran views mankind as being god's successor on earth and having a divine nature and a f...