How to find Criteria for Dating Surahs In the Chronological Interpretation of the Qur'an

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رضوانه دستجانی فراهانی ¹ ( PhD student in Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. )
abbas ashrafi ² ( Associate Professor in Quran and Hadith Studies, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran. )
ahmad akoochekian ³ ( Associate Professor in Sociology, Center for Strategic Researches on Development, Qom, Iran. )

Received: 2020-06-28 Accepted : 2020-08-31 Published : 2020-08-22

Keywords: Historiography, Historical context, cause of revelation, Futurism, discount method, descriptions of revelation,

Abstract :

The historiography of the Qur'an is considered a suitable criterion and tool for correcting or confirming many narrations, the causes of revelation, the order of revelation, determine the place of revelation in Mecca or Medina, and the Prophet’s biography. The following article, with an analytical and descriptive method and with the aim of getting acquainted with the correct and effective principles and criteria of the history of the Holy Quran, examines the dating methods of the commentators so that the solutions and possibility of writing new interpretations can be examined based on the order of revelation. The result of this research is that these theories alone cannot offer a comprehensive method for dating the Holy Quran. The preferred view focuses on this combined ijtihad process, which can pave the way for the dating of Sur by completing Rijālī, rational, historical studies in terms of statistical and mathematical probabilities.