نشریه آینه پژوهش
سال بیست و سوم شماره 5 (پیاپی 138، آذر و اسفند 1391)

One of the skills of the information literacy is the ability to designate and select the good works and to abandon the bad books which lacks useful information and right citation. Being able to analyze the information, thinking critically, and having some clear criteria for evaluating the works are considered as prerequisites for this skill. This article is going to talk about the negative aspect of information literacy that is the ability to abandon the invaluable sources. Therefore, the author intends to introduce some standards which help recognize the bad books and stop reading them. He names and explains about fifteen criteria some of which are: the violation of the research ethics, generalization, using aliases, obsolescence of the sources, and lack of genuine sources.

After Quran, hadith is the most important source for knowing Islam and the political, cultural, social, and religious condition in the first three centuries of Islam. So, no one can deny its value as a historical source. The western hadith scholars have also considered and studied hadiths as a source for getting information about the history of Islam such as the date of different events such as the date of Quran commentary, jurisprudence, Kalam, and the date of establishing different religious institutes. On the other hand, the main issue is historical value of the hadith information regarding the first centuries of Islam. Historical value of the hadith data is connected to the issue of the hadith reliability which is a very controversial subject among the western researchers. In the present study, the author, first of all, has a glance over the study of hadith in West. Following this, he examines the problem of the Islamic resource in western research upon the recognition of the documented sources versus the literary sources. Finally, he talks over western researchers’ new approaches to Islamic resources.

Content analysis is a technique for achieving various features of a message, views and ideas of the sender of the message, causes, and effects of sending the message. In fact, this method is used to have an objective and regular analysis of the messages which are exchanged through various ways. In the present study, the author has a brief look at the content analysis. First of all, he provides a definition of this method, and then he examines the process of its development. Following this, he scrutinizes the history of the use of content analysis; and also the goals of applying this technique in scientific research. Other topics which are discussed in the present paper include talking over the benefits, limitation, and problems of applying this method; studying of the distinctions between content analysis and other research methods; different kinds of the method; content units in content analysis; the steps of putting this method into practice; assessing its reliability and validity; and finally the way of using computer in this method.

Nowadays, the translation of Quran is a necessity, and Quran scholars have translated their divine book into the language of the day in order to respond to the needs of their religious community, and have a role in the communication of the facts of Quran. In the present study, the author has examined the famous translations of Hamd chapter, especially the modern translations. And he has tried to show the semantic differences between the translations, and to review the possible errors in the interpretation of the verses of this chapter.

Sāhel Khorshid (Sun’s Seaside) is an excerpt from Mohammad Reza Hakimi’s poems in Persian and Arabic, which is published by Al-Haiāt, the academic and cultural publishing house, in 1390. In the following study, the author examines the style and content of Hakimi’s poems.

Tohfat Al-Fatemin fi Zekr Ahvāl Qom va Al-Qomin is one of the most important sources about study of Qom. This book is a research on the history, geography, historical monuments, and the religious and literary scholars of Qom. It contains some scientific information which is based on the library and field research, and is published by the Institute of the Study of Qom. In order to provide a brief introduction to this book, the author, firstly, talks about the biography and the works of the writer of the book. Following this, she is going to discuss the content of the book.

Morādkhāy Kāplān in his book Judaism as a Civilization intends to find out the identity and biological concerns in the future of Judaism in order to show a way to save all the Jewish in the world. So, the Jewish civilization should be again discovered, interpreted, and built. In this book, he tries to define Judaism not as a religion but as a civilization. In the following article, the author has tried to provide a report of the framework and the main content of the book in order to clarify its provisions for Muslim scholars who have civilizational concerns and wants to keep Islamic identity with a civilizational approach in the modern secular condition. He states that Kaplan, first of all, talks about different challenges which Jewish face in various aspects of life such as politics and economy; and then has a look at Judaism capabilities and their practical sources to alleviate the crisis. The author puts across that Kaplan, in the first part of his book, categorizes the causes of the crisis in two groups of collapsing factors including the modern political order, the modern economical order, and the modern ideology, and also the factors regarding the protection of Jewish life covering both internal and environmental elements. Examining the second and the third part of the book, he states that Kaplan firstly explains about the Reforming Model, New-Orthodox Model, and Conservative Model; and points out their weak points to provide an opportunity for introducing his proposal model that is “Judaism as a civilization”. Following this, the author discusses this new model and its different aspects from Kaplan’s point of view. According to the author, the fourth part of the book deals with the organization of the Jewish community in its relation with the rest of the world, in the face of challenges; and the fifth part speaks about the growth of Judaism. In the last part of the book, Torah and Judaism are introduced as a life method for the American Jewish.

Professor Ali Asqar Faqihi is the writer of many valuable works upon the history, religion, and sociology of Qom, some of which are considered as primary sources in research. In the present study, the writer, first of all, provides a bibliography of all his published and unpublished works. Then, he names his articles, and finally he talks over the essays which have been written about him.