Fatima Tofighi; Mohammad Haghani Fazl
Abstract
A survey of the numerous works of comparative studies of the Bible and the Qur'an in Iran shows that they are far from the necessary criteria and there is seldom a research that can fit within appropriate academic comparative frameworks. To study the problems in these works and to offer solutions ...
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A survey of the numerous works of comparative studies of the Bible and the Qur'an in Iran shows that they are far from the necessary criteria and there is seldom a research that can fit within appropriate academic comparative frameworks. To study the problems in these works and to offer solutions for them, we are reviewing all the peer reviewed articles published on a comparative scriptural study in the last ten years. We found out that the problems can be categorized in two groups: 1) Those found in all comparative works in religious studies, such as not clarifying the kind of comparison, starting with a non-problem, begging the quesiton, the ambiguity of the reason for the selection of the items, not stating the method of analysis,, or assuming the identity of non-identical concepts; and 2) those only existing in scriptural studies, such as the lack of knowledge of the text, offering a non-accurate understanding of the text,, and incorrect selection of the passages. These problems will be explained using tangible examples from the articles studied.
