Heresy in the interpretations of Holy Quran

The title is a research paper by Raziyeh Ahmadpoor and Seyyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini Mirsafi published in “Quranic Studies Quarterly” Volume 11, Issue 41 - Serial Number 41, Spring, 2020, Pages 69-87. The following is an excerpt from its abstract.

The Quran and different sects and groups

The scholarly and critical study of the backgrounds and causes of social, political, etc., interpretations and perceptions of the Holy Quran has played a vital role in recognizing the main and fundamental factors in the formation of different ideas, sects and groups in Islamic society undoubtedly.

Objective of the article

Accordingly, the purpose of the present article is to study various political interpretations of the Verses of the Holy Quran after the death of the Holy Prophet. In this regard, while surveying the prior sources and references relying on historical documents, the necessary information was provided in different files and then the research materials were compiled and explained with descriptive-analytical method.

Methodology

In order to clarify the extremist political attitudes towards the verses and hadiths after the death of Prophet Mohammad which inflicted irreparable effects on the Islamic Ummah, the fields of the emergence of different interpretive methods, the interpretation method of Qur'an to Qur'an and the method of narration were studied initially. Continuing with narrating and writing the hadith method during the Holy Prophet's era (PBUH) and the prohibition of narrating and writing hadith during the caliphate of Abu Bakr, Omar and Uthman were surveyed.