Ayatollah Sobhani has commented on Surat al-Farghan in his work: Simaye Insani Kamil dar Qora, the Perfect Man's Image in the Qur'an. The present article is a comparative study of Ayatollah Sobhani's interpretation of this chapter in comparison with that of Allameh Tabatabai. Among the commonalities of these two interpretations is the use of the Qur'anic verses as the most important interpretat...

It has been over five decades since the concept of “spiritual health” was first introduced in academic texts, and although many studies have been conducted on the subject, there exists no consensus on its definition and components yet. Nonetheless, this concept has been an inextricable part of Islamic Theology, which is more than several hundred years old. Therefore, it can be asserted that obs...

To analyze seminary currents' stance from 1960s till the victory of Islamic revolution, a different theoretical framework can be put forward. Western writers often speak of three currents: "completely political", "moderate" and "radical". Some internal writers mention three currents;"conservative and nonpolitical","moderate" and "revolutionary".According to most Shiite jurisprudents' who consid...

In economic arena, Islamic republic of Iran is facing issues and concepts never experienced before, theoretically or practically, by anyone anywhere. Therefore Islamic republic of Iran is itself obliged to innovate, theorize and create its own models in these novel economic situations. Among these concepts is resistance economy. Having been proposed by supreme leader, it includes a large number...

Ayatollah Khamenei has viewed the Islamic Revolution to be a fundamental change in values that is accompanied by a change in the hearts of individuals and political, economic and cultural structures. This fundamental change, heppenned with the presence of a mass of people and being of a continuous nature, passes a developing and transendenc-giving direction; the achievements of the revolution i...