A New Method in Sociological Researches on the Qur'an

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The Project, "A Sociological Research on the Qur'an" is organized in three executive phases: extraction of sociological propositions, thematic classification, and theoretical explication of the themes, of which the first phase has been carried out in the Khurāsān Islamic Propagation Office over the past seven years. The research method of this project has been organized in the following stages:

Identifying the noble verses that deal with sociological verses.
Analyzing and separating the exegetical discourses underlying any of the noble verses (in the four tafsīrs of Rāhnamā, Al-Mīzān, Nimūna, and Majma‘ al-Bayān) into main and peripheral principles and concepts as well as areas, situations, circumstances, and the type and quality of the relation among the concepts.
Adapting and finding equivalents for the principles and concepts and the specified relations in sociological language.
Reordering and presenting the material obtained (as a result of adaptation and translation) in the form of logical propositions (axiomatizing the materials obtained).

Following the above-mentioned stages, the propositions obtained will be thematically classified in the form of a separate project and then each class will be theoretically explicated and interpreted.