جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « religious conflicts » در نشریات گروه « علوم قرآن و حدیث »

Religious disputes have always been a challenge for thinkers and theologians to the extent that they have had an attempt to settle them peacefully. In this regard, by fair behavior, avoiding the extremes of excess and deficiency and observing human rights conventions, great men will lead human society toward progress, materially and spiritually.
Using a descriptive -analytical method and authentic historical sources, the present study attempts to investigate what strategies were used by Imam Reza (A.S) to settle the religious disputes. Imam Reza avoided to use pluralistic approaches for settling religious and sectarian disputes, since they result in confusion of human faith and intellectuality. Rather, in the form of guiding and purposeful debates, he used to provide answers to scientific questions and settle religious disputes by proving the legitimacy of valid beliefs and explaining false ones, emphasizing the principles of audience analysis and thematic analysis, observing justice, fairness and respecting others without any bias, as well as being fully aware of all aspects of discussions.

In order to analyze the Islamic sectarian movements, one should first enquire into their backgrounds; and this may help to carry out a comprehensive research. The majority of the scholars are of opinion that sectarianism, especially the political one, began to develop from the time of Uthman's murder; however, the understanding of this important issue involves the consideration of the intellectual backgrounds and the historical events preceding Uthman. In fact, so long as one does not occupy one's self with the background events, one's enquiry into the causes of political events and the origins of thoughts is less likely to bear fruit. Having considered some of the characteristics of the age of the Prophet (PBUH), this writing first examines the characteristics of the age of the Prophet's companions and followers, its political and doctrinal controversies, the way in which the Islamic Sects developed, and the controversial theological issues; then, it proceeds to enquire into the extent to which the political controversy influences sectarianism; and finally, it provides a list of the most important objects of conflict among the sects. This study may help to shed light on the causal relationship among the intellectual events; it also may help to notice the similarity of the doctrinal conflicts between the past and present thinkers.