نشریه مطالعات اسلامی زنان و خانواده
سال سوم شماره 1 (پیاپی 4، بهار و تابستان 1395)

In addion to shaping new atudes in science, thinkers make mental paradigms which become others’ thought repository. In this case, something may happen, which is called “conceptual accumulaon” by crics. Conceptual accumulaon occurs over me, especially if the line of knowledge is not subject to crical change and challenge. The review of interpreve texts shows that concepts and terms related to family have suffered conceptual accumulaon in some cases and texts and departed from their main and the Quranic meanings over the history of interpretaon. The present paper seeks to elaborate on factors which play role in this terminological change and difference, which has led to conceptual accumulaon in Quranic terms and literature. The textual review and comparison of several Shia and Sunni interpretaons resulted in following findings: (1) existence or non-existence of an infallible origin in explaining the Quranic verses related to women and family; (2) macroscopic atude and aenon to aims and principles governing marriage and family in new exegeses; (3) macro thoughts and scienfic methods of interpreter; (4) interpreters’ contradictory views about matrimony relaonships; (5) context-orientaon or deducing general rules from the verses of injuncons.

The concept of “Hijab (veil)” is of special status in celesal teachings and its seventeen effects on developing “society” and “man” is unique. Using a Quran-based analycal and descripve research, we find that these effects have two main aims the arc of ascent “towards God” like elevators, and towards “everything other than God” like an immunizing armor. In such an environment, it is incorrect to regard “hijab” as behaviour only for “women” and restricted to “chador”. “Hijab” is defined under the concept of “piety” and determines how men and women interact heavenly in the five domains of “heart”, “look”, “talk”, “behaviour”, and “coverage”. The concept of hijab has been emphasized since man has descended to this world and the first warning has been the warning against “Satan’s sedion” in this regard, because of “man’s descent” from paradise. Using liberal art and media, the culture of nudity and bedizenment of the second age of ignorance is now showing off itself, so it is necessary to answer the queson whether we should sll look at hijab through a “prescripve” approach or enjoy the wide educaonal and redempve capacity of this fundamental cure through using new arsc tools and media, and adopng an “explanatory” approach.

Television is a mass media with many audiences due to its parcular features and has an important role in changing culture and cultural values of society. Among its audiences, children spend most of their leisure me on it. They have great ability to learn and what they learn are engraved in their mind and form their personality and identy in adulthood. Accordingly, children should be regarded as special audiences of television, who receive their thinking and behavioral models from this media. Since Islamic Republic of Iran regards television as an educaonal enty with an important role in educang and developing children, the present paper seeks to elaborate on the appropriate discourse of naonal media in the field of training children, using the qualitave content analysis method and “convenonal” approach. The conceptual system of this discourse is based on three principles of “norms of naonal media in the view of leaders of Islamic Republic of Iran”,” the principles of Islamic training of child” and “ the components of training children in Imam Khomeini’s view. The research findings show that appropriate discourse of naonal media in the field of children includes the elements of “teaching religious rules and teachings”, “physical health and hygiene”, entertainment and fun”, “increasing interest and aachment to Islamic Revoluon”, “improving the spirit of parcipaon”, “knowing enemy”, “ and improving scienfic vigor”, all of which are centered around “religious and moral growth and training”.

Many developments in the last two centuries have made women to tend increasingly towards social acvies and employment. This had led to change or mulplicity of their family and social roles, resulng in new challenges. One of the main aims of the present paper is to review female faculty members’ condions in facing their family and professional roles. A qualitave method and phenomenological approach is used in this paper. The data are gathered through problem-oriented interview and its parcipants are 13 female faculty members of universies in Tehran who were selected through systemac sampling. The research findings are classified into four main themes of “family role and playing role in family”, “professional role and playing role in university”, simultaneity of playing family and professional roles”, and “facing with how to solve the problems of simultaneity of playing double roles”. Conceptual understanding of categories resulted in the fact that female faculty members face with some challenges in terms of mulplicity of their family and professional role and a balance can be easily made between their roles and responsibilies if proper strategies and plans are adopted by individuals, families and relevant organizaons, based on the recommendaons of a religious model.

Sex reassignment is one of the new issues in jurisprudence. In addion to changing one’s sex, sex reassignment changes his/her legal and jurisprudenal life. Reviewing the history of this issue in jurisprudence and explaining the view of the Torah, the Bible and the Quran in this regard, present paper seeks to elaborate on the types of sex reassignment and Imam Khomeini’s view on its different aspects. Imam Khomeini’s view includes legality or illegality of sex assignment, the effect of sex assignment on marriage, dower, maintenance, authority, custody of children, family tles, and inheritance. It uses an analycal-descripve field method and refers to Imam Khomeini’s fatwas in Tahrir al-Wasilah (Exegesis of the Means of Salvaon or Commentaries on the Liberaon of the Intercession). The research findings show that Imam Khomeini regards sex reassignment as legal. However, it nullifies previous marriage, changes family tles and inheritance share. It was necessary to do field study and use descripve-analycal method in order to know the issue of sex reassignment and Imam Khomeini’s view in this regard, respecvely.

Providing society with moral security is one of the most important social rights for women in order to live freely in a secure environment. The main queson of the present paper is to what extent bothIran and internaonal community have paid aenon to women’s moral security and mental quiescence and which one has put more importance to this issue. Reviewing internaonal documents legislated for providing people around the world with moral security and Iran’s policies and laws in this regard, this paper takes into consideraon the formulaon of these policies in internaonal community. Finally, it comes to the conclusion that internaonal documents are so weakand insignificant in comparison to Islamic Republic of Iran’s laws that would not worth considering and that if internaonal community wants to provide sociees with security, it should take Iran’s laws as its model and reformulate necessary laws according to these laws.