نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و سوم شماره 3 (پیاپی 136، آبان 1391)

AbusalāhHalabi was one of the most famous mutakallimiin and Shia jurists during modern ages, whose personality and the features of his thoughts are not quite known. Therefore, the writer intends to clarify some of the characteristics of AbusalāhHalabi’skalāmi writings. In this regard, he, first of all, has a brief look at his biography; and then provides a list of his works including his kalāmi, juridical, and other kinds of writings. Following this, based on the references Halabi had had to his different works in every one of his books, the author examines the chronological order of hiswritings. In the next part of this article, he has studied three of AbusalāhHalabi’skalāmi works: Taghrib Al-Ma’āref, Al-kāfi fi Al-taklif, andAl-borhānalāSobut Al-iman. In fact, the author has compared these three books with regard to their structure, content, and the sources used for their writing. In the last part, the writer talks about Halabi’skalāmi methodology, his knowledge basis, and his intellectual properties such as his belief in the independence of reason in receiving religious education, rational goodness and badness, the least use of textual evidences, and inauthenticity of khabarwahid (a hadith with incomplete chain of transmission).

Epistemological moral skepticism as a meta-ethical view intends to examine, know, and justify moral believes. Academic moral skepticism and Pyrrhonic moral skepticism are two subclasses of epistemological moral skepticism. Through some reasons such as retrogressive process and skeptical suppositions, an academic moral skeptic presents this dogmatic judgment that since none of human's believes is positively and epistemologically perfect and reasonable, nobody can ever have moral knowledge. But, regarding the reasonable belief, a Pyrrhonic skeptic suspends the judgment and believes that nobody is capable of knowing whether his believes are reasonable or not because either approving of the existence of reasonable belief or rejecting it has some defects that human cannot correct them. In the following article, which is actually the translation of Moral Skepticism by Walter Sinout Armstrong, the author, firstly, translates different parts of the book; and then particularlyreviews the issue of academic moral skepticism. Besides, she is going to point out the other kinds of moral skepticism and also the criticisms which have been leveled at them. One of the important findings of this study is that the criticism of academic moral skepticism is set forth together with the criticism of other views about morality and moral propositions which have been debated in west.

In May 1390, a conference was held in Dezful in order to commemorate the academic and spiritual status of Ayatollah Mirzā Muhammad Ali Dezfuli and the other elders of Moezzifamily. The following article is an account of the writer's lecture in this conference. It provides some explanation about Ayatollah MoezziDezfuli's biography, his most important work Tajdid Al-dorus, and also the books which were written about AyatollāhMoziDezfuli and his family.

In the following essay, the author has tried to provide a plan to evaluate every book prior to its publishing. This plan, which has been presented by one of the England academic society named the Society of New Humanities Researches,is related to economic issues in publishing. This proposal includes some parts such as primary information of the book and statements which support the book.

In the present study, the author is going to introduce three collections of literary, mystic, and philosophical books which were revised by Professor Ali Mohaddith. The first collection contains fifteen literary-mystic poems in Persian and Arabic, written by fifteen Persian, Indian, Roman, and Arabic poets. The next collection includes twenty Persian and Arabic texts about mysticism; and the last one contains a debate between a drunken man, jurist, and a sufialong with sixteen other texts in poem and prose about pantheism and ….At the beginning of this article, the author mentions that professor Mohaddith writes an introduction to every one of his revised text. This introduction consists of some explanation about the author and the work; some information about the bibliography and study of the manuscripts; and also the problems which he may encounter. Sometimes, he even provides the reader with some information about the historical and intellectual background of the author and the work. In the following study, the writer provides a detailed account of these historical and academic points.

Shahāb Al-Akhbār, by Qāzi Qazāie, is one of the public hadith texts which have always been taken into consideration by Shiite and Sunni muhaddith (a specialist who profoundly knows and narrates hadith) and scholars. This book includes around one thousand ethic and educative hadiths narrated by Islam prophet; besides it contains explanations, annotations, appendix, and many summaries. In the present study, the author, first of all, is going to provide a short biography of Qāzi Qazāie and his works. Then he briefly introduces Shahāb Al-Akhbār. Out of all the explanations written on this book, the author intends to give a report of Zia' Al-Shahāb, which is one of the few Shiite explanations. Therefore, the author, after providing a concise biography of Fazlullah Ravandi, the authorof Zu' Al-Shahāb, introduces seven copies of the book.

An Image of the Translations of Quran has been written about the first National Conference of the translators of holy Quran in Farsi. It was held in Imam Khomeini Institute for Higher Education in March 1389. This book has been prepared by the Quran Research Association of Qom Seminary School, and has been published by the efforts of Muhammad Ali RezāieIsfahāni, Ebdāli, and EbrāhimQāsemi. In the present article, the writer has reviewed and criticized a part of this book. In this regard,firstly, he presents the subject which should be criticized along with the number of its page; and then set forth its correct form. Besides, most of the time, having mentioned the book conceptual errors, he provides an example in order to affirm his statement.

HadiqeSoltāniedarMasāelImānie is a Persian book about the study of Kalām and religious principles which was published in 1265. The author of this book isSeyyedHoseinIbnDeldār, known as Seyyed Al-Olamā, who is one of the Shia scholars. The book includes the following subjects: Monotheism, justice, Prophethood and Imamat. The first volume of the book is available in the library of Dalan Mosque in Daka. In the present article, the writer has tried to provide a report of this book. In this regard, he talks about the features of the book, its font, and gives a short explanation about its content, the writer’s religion, and the sources which were used by the author.

Konouz Al-JavāhervaM’aāden Al-Zavāherby AllāmeQolāmrezāĀrānyis a book written in the form of Question and answer. This book is based on forty essences whose number of pages is various since the answer to the questions are different in accordance with the need for arguments. In the following article, the author, first of all, provides a short biography of the writer of the book, and then introduces some of his works which have been written on the subject of question and answer. Following this, he gives a report of a manuscript of Konouz Al-Javāherwhichis kept in ImāmzādeHalāl Library in Ārān. In this regard, he makes a list of the titles of forty essences which are included in the book, and next quotes a short part of the text.

The book by ZaydIbn Ali (AS), which has been known among the Zaydis as theMusnad of Zaydis one of Shia ancient sources and belongs to the second century AH. The most important, and sometimes the only narrator, of ZaydIbn Ali’s (AS) hadiths is AbukhāledVāsetiAmruIbnKhāled. It seems that AmruIbnKhāled’s book was not quite well-known between peoplein the first centuries and at least till the third century. Since 4th century, famous rijal scholarsand great Imami hadith scholars have mentioned and referenced to his book a lot. According to the author of this article, it is necessary to examine AmruIbnKhāled’s hadiths in Imami primary sources and secondary sources, so that their dating demonstrates the process of this progress. In this regard, he, firstly, introduces AmruIBnKhāled’s character, and then explains Saduq and Najashi’s opinion about Khaled’s book. Finally, he talks aboutImami writers’ opinion about the book, and mentions AmruIbnKhāled’s character in Zaydy sources.

In the first decade of 20th century, Isfahan Seminary School built an institute called Isfahan Safākhāne for the dialogue between Moslems and Christians. In this Institute, Moslems’ representative talked to Christians’ representative; and their speech were writtenand published in Al-Islam magazine. When England penetrated Iran and then churches started to influence society, some scholars of Isfahan Seminary School established this magazine in order to plead a cause with Christian scholars. Therefore Al-Islam is a religious magazine which has been published not only to stop the propagation of Christianity in our Islamic society, but also to try to attract the Christians’ attention to Islam. This magazine includes a report of the religious dialogue which was entitled SorurQeibi (Hidden Happiness), biographies of some well-known scholars such as Fakhr Al-Islām and Rokn Al-Malek, and some of the letters which were sent to the magazine. Only 38 volumes of this magazine are published in Iran. In 1323, Muhammad Ali Dā’ie Al-Islām, Moslems’ main representative was settled in Mumbai, and started publishing a new magazine titled Da’vat Al-Islam, whose main subject was Islam and Christianity, in Persian and Urdu. In the present article, the author first of all points out the unique features of the magazine, and next provides a brief report of its subjects. In the last part, he talks about the purpose of the publication of the magazine, its publishing information, its price, and …..

B’azMasāleb Al-Navāseb fi NaqzB’azFazāeh Al-Ravāfez, known as Al-Naqz, is one of Shia valuable works which was written by Abd Al-JalilQazviniRāzi during the first years of the second half of the 6th century. It has been written to reject the issues which were presented in B’azFazāeh Al-Ravāfezwhose writer has been one of Sunni scholars who has written the book in order to disproof Shia and approve Sunni school. Therefore, Abd Al-JalilQazviniRāzihas compiled Al-Naqz in order to confirm the righteousness of Jafrai religion and the Twelver mode. In the following article, the author, firstly, provides a short biography of the writer of the book and his works. Then, he has a quick review to Al-Naqzand its content. He also talks about the writer’s purpose of writing this work. In the last part, he introduces some of the available manuscripts of this book.

Hamd chapter is one of the most important chapters in Quran. Because of the high ethical and mystical teachings contained in the verses of this chapter, scholars has paid special attention to it both in jurisprudence studying and in Islamic ethics; and Quran commentators has written independent books upon its explanation and commentary. In the present study, the author has tried to provide a statistical bibliography of this chapter up to the end of 1390. He has arranged italphabetically based on the names of the writers; and his list includes the names of 220 published books along with 74 manuscripts. Following this, he provides an index of Shia and Sunni writers of these books. In the last part he presents a subject index which covers the following subjects: 1. Commentary of In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate; 2. the jurisprudence of Hamd chapter; 3. The miracle of Hamd chapter; 4. Tajwid, memorization, and the grammar of Hamd chapter; 5. Calligraphy, graphic, and illumination of Hamd chapter; 6. The books written upon Hamd for children and youths; 7. The independent narrative, ethical, and mystical commentaries; 8. Political, social, and educational commentaries of Hamd chapter, in addition to the modern issues of this chapter; and 9. The common commentaries of Hamdchapter and other chapters.