The Typology of Quranic Studies in Contemporary Iran

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The Typology of Quranic Studies in Contemporary Iran

An annual event is held to commemorate Research Week in the last week of winter (Azar) in Persian every universities and research centers hold some ceremonies in this period. Institute for Humanities & Cultural Studies also holds ceremonies. This year's motto or Slogan is "Development of Research".
The Faculty of Quranic Studies has organized a series of meetings for this year entitled “Development of research in the field of interpretive studies.

 The Typology of Quranic Studies in Contemporary Iran :
Typology is the study of types or the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics. Typology is the act of finding, counting and classification facts with the help of eyes, other senses and logic. Typology may refer to:
•    Typology (anthropology), division of culture by races.
•    Typology (archaeology), classification of artefacts according to their characteristics.
Typology of Quranic studies is based on different types of studies and works in this field. The meaning of contemporary Iran in this article is 4 decades after the Islamic Revolution of Iran. In fact, this period is the brightest period of Quranic literature in the history of Shiism. Compared to all the works of the last 14 centuries, the Qur'anic works have increased significantly in quantity and quality.
Quranic works in contemporary Iran can be divided into 5 types. Writings of Quranic sciences, Interpretive writings, Quranic software, Conceptual arts, Visual Arts. Quranic sciences are a collection of topics whose subject and axis is the Holy Quran. 
Iranian Quran scholars have written many books on Quranic sciences. Certain types of Quranic sciences have been the focus of most. The History of Quran, the language of Quran, The script of Quran, The distortion of Quran, The structure of Quran and Ancient inscription or prescription of Quran which recently was found.
 Interpretive writings divided in some types.
•    Exegesis with rational approach.
•    Exegesis with Social approach
•    Exegesis with Shiism approach
•    Exegesis with ethic approach.
•    Critical Analysis of western studies on Quran is another type in this respect.
•    Women’s Reading of Quran is another type in this respect.
•    Interdisciplinary studies of Quran. This type divided in some kinds:
•    Linguistic studies of Quran.
•    Historical – Cultural studies of Quran.
•    Hermeneutical studies of Quran.

 


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