Abstract

Religious intellectuals and conventionalization of religion

Amanollah Fassihi
Imam Khomeini Institute
This paper evaluates the relationship between contemporary religious intellectual trends and the conventionalization of religion. The question is whether the contemporary religious intellectual trend had any role in the conventionalization of religion or not. The answer is positive. To prove the relationship between religious intellectualism and the conventionalization of religion, the paper first concentrates on the concept of conventionalization and topics which help understanding the relationship. The topics are the meaning of religious intellectual, the historical factors and grounds of the formation of religious intellectualism, its characteristics and instructions, religious intellectuals’ reading of religion, and the mechanisms of conventionalization.
Keywords: religion, conventionalization, intellectual, religious intellectual
 

Recognizing intellectual trends in Iran

Shamsollah Mariji
Islamic Propagation Office
Intellectual trends in Iran can be categorized in different historical periods on the basis of their attitude towards the West or religious and native culture and with respect to socio-political changes in various forms with Western, nationalistic, Leftist, or religious trends. A quick glance at these trends can prepare the grounds for social and intellectual researchers because identifying socially active trends or understanding the grounds of future activities is highly dependent on intellectual trends that appeared in the recent century in Iran. This paper tries to have a quick glance at intellectual trends in contemporary Iran.
Keywords: intellectualism, intellectuals, Westernism, nationalism, Leftism, religion, Iran.

An evaluation of Fazl-al-Rahman’s ideas about the reconstruction of Ijtihad in religion

Mohammad Jafar Elmi
Baqer al-Olum University
The widespread scientific, political and social developments that started in various societies especially in the Western societies a few centuries ago and are still continuing have confronted intellectuals with different questions in different fields. In such circumstances, Fazl-