given analyses on shakila in quranic commentaries lead us to philosopher`s statement on human species form. so viewed, perceptions are regarded as the main element for making and transforming shakila and partial cause for its function. this paper, relying on quranic commentaries and philosophical works, has studied allameh tabataba’i and fakhr razi`s views in the field comparatively. in this wa...

the verse on “the world of primal covenant (‘alam al-zarr)” is among difficult quranic verses whose difficulty can be discovered by consideration of different opinions, which are sometimes opposite to one another, presented by quranic commentators. having accepted the existence of “the world of primal covenant,” mulla sadra has interpreted and expounded that world in accordance with his philoso...

in his book quranic studies, wansbrough presents two criteria of style and function for typification of old commentatorial texts before al-tabari. recognizing twelve commentatorial devices and borrowing some expressions from jewish commentatorial works, he divides old quranic commentaries into five categories of parabolic, juristic, textual, rhetorical, and analogical. based on literary analysi...

professor abolghasem gorji was an outstanding professor and also an eminent jurist of contemporary iran whose valuable works were chiefly on jurisprudence and law and then on the quranic sciences – as his edition of quranic commentary jawami‘ al-jami‘ as well as annotations found in the end of a treatise entitled “criteria of veraciousness of commentaries” can clearly prove. presenting a biogra...

During the thirteenth century, the Jews in southern France (called “Provence” in Hebrew sources) experienced a cultural revolution. Following the arrival of Maimonides’ writings and the translation of his Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew, a very distinctive tradition of philosophy and exegesis was developed. Basic works of Graeco-Arabic and Arabic philosophy were translated into Hebrew, in re...