The Epistemic Range of the Holy Quran From the Perspective of Allameh Tabatabai and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli

Abstract

Received: 2020/8/31 | Accepted: 2021/3/8AbstractOne of the very important issues in contemporary Iran is to determine “the realm of knowledge in the Noble Qur’an” because the supporters of the Qur’anic governance should first specify their stand on 3 minimal, moderate, and maximal approaches. The present article has made a comparison between the viewpoints of 2 eminent Qur’anic researchers; Allāma Tabātabā’i believes that the Noble Qur’an is the book of “guidance” not “science”; therefore, he maintains that the knowledge realm of this holy book is restricted to 5 fields of “beliefs”, “ethics”, “rules”, “stories”, and “preaching”. On the other hand, although Āyatollāh Javādi Āmoli accepts “guidance” as the main purpose of the Noble Qur’an, he does not hold the scope of guidance restricted to the above five fields and he believes that “all sciences” including “natural science” are in a way involved in the guidance of human being. Hence, the knowledge realm of the Noble Qur’an encompasses all sciences including natural science. This study answers “how we can extract all these sciences, especially natural science with all its various categories from a single volume book (The Noble Qur’an)”. In this article, Āyatollāh Javādi Āmoli’s viewpoint was chosen and the abovementioned theory was explained by his arguments as well as the systems theory and Ahādith. This paper has used library method for data collection, and comparative analysis for finding the answer.

Keywords

• noble qur’an
• guidance
• science
• allāma tabātabā’i
• āyatollāh javādi āmoli