Comparison of spiritual and emotional intelligences of high school girls who have memorized the Quran, who begin to memorize it, and who have not memorized Quran in the city of Isfahan in the year 2016

The aim of this study was to compare spiritual and emotional intelligences of high schooler girls who memorized the Quran and who did not memorize the Quran in the Esfahan in 2016. The study is applied in terms of purpose and causal-comparative in terms of data collection. The study popula-tion was all high school students of the Esfahan city which includes 33,928 students, of whom 800 are the ones who have memorized the Quran. The sample consisted of 90 students (30 students who memorized the Quran and 30 who did not memorize the Quran, and 30 who are beginners) that chosen randomly. Badi et al.’s Spiritual Intelligence questionnaire and Bar-On emotional intelligence ques-tionnaire were applied. The results showed that there were differences in the scores of general and critical thinking among students who memorized the Quran, students who did not memorize the Quran, and the beginners (they were higher in students who memorized the Quran and the beginners). Independence, happiness, reality testing, interpersonal relations, social respon-sibility, and emotional intelligence were higher in students who memorized the Quran.