Intellectual Approaches to the Issue of women in the Qur'an

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This article includes two parts: The first part deals with the cultural origin of "Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd" who clamed to be  the prepetuator of figures such as Qasim Amin, Tahir Haddad, and Zaki Najib Muhammad, and considers the Prophet (S.A.W.) as the offspring and an outcome of Jahiliyyah, and regards the Qur'an as a cultural product of the time. He believes that the Prophet (S.A.W.) effectuated a new identity, totally terrestrial, social and cultural, for  the Arabs in a time of identity crisis, thus trying to desecrate the Qur'an through "historism" and "relativism". In the second part, the antecedents of  the issue of polygamy among the intellectuals is reviewd and the opponents, reasons are criticized; and for the same reason by which Abu Zayd has argued on temporality of permission for polygamy, its permissibility for today is also established, since the same circumstances are still going on in more extensive degree and scale.