the amount of reliability on outward aspects of the quran and the role of traditions in it has been one of the linguistic basics of the holy quran and it has allocated to itself a large volume of principled and hermeneutical subjects. we faced two sets of statements in teachings of imam ali (pbuh). the first category are the evidences that it may be understood from them authority and validity o...

the present article investigates, with regard to ’āyāt al-ahkām, the qur’anic exegetes’ attitudes toward seven typical sides of abdullah ibn mas‘ūd’s reading of the qur’an. it shows that the qur’anic exegetes do not share the same view on the permissibility of favoring those sides which contradict the ‘uthmani orthography’. to adopt a scholarly and methodical position toward this issue, one nee...