Religious studies

This book is one of the Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli’s works an wirings. It is in direction of explaining, analyzing and clearing the light of religion and the lamp of Islam guidance. It is obvious that the daily doubts and questions about the religion subject, differ from the past, especially all the experiences which Arab has found from the renaissance and modernism up to now, in fighting with the religion, today has been an endemic in the form of religious doubts and has entered into the public thoughts especially worthy and pure youth of our community. ####Therefore, from this viewpoint, this book has been presented in harmonious and orderly chapters, considering to the daily intellectual and cultural situation. This book had studied some subjects in the field of religion philosophy and put it in front of those who studying and researching.

The biography of Ayatollah Abdullah Javadi Amoli
Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli was born in Amol Township in 1933A.D. (1312S.H.). His father and ancestor were islam preachers and held the Household in high esteem. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli after finishing the elementary school, entered Amol’s theological school in 1946A.D. (1325) and until 1950 A.D. (1329) had studied there. After that, he went to Mashhad’s theological school but because its “seminarians” (theological students) did not show any reverence for Mashhad’s great scholars, he left there and entered Tehran’s theological school. After entering to Marvi’s school, studied “Rasa-el” and “Makaseb”, then learned “kefayat Al-usul”, “rational and transmitted sciences” (ulume aghli and naghli) and after 5 years he left for Qom’s theological school and has been there up to now. One of his cultural services is “the establishment of “Esra” publishers and research Institution in 1993A.D. (1372). He was present in constituent assembly (majlese khobregan) of constitutional law and in the first and second period of constituent assembly of leadership. He also has been one of the teachers’ community members of Qom’s theological school and now he is in charge of prayer leader on Fridays of sacred township of "Qom".

His masters and friends: Ayatollah AzizollahTabaresi, Mirza Mahdi Mohi Al-din Elahi Ghomshei, Ayatollah Burujerdi, Imam Khomeni and Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabai, etc. He has many works such as: Tasnim, The commentary of Noble Quran, thematic commentary of Noble Quran, Rahighe Makhtom, Asrar Al-Salat, Sahbaye Hajj, Vilayat-e faqih, etc.

The book structure:
1- chapter one: description of the religion
2- chapter two: the origin of religion
3- chapter three: the valuable reality of religion
4- chapter four: the language of religion
5- chapter five: intellect and religion
6- chapter six: religious pluralism

In the end of book has been related the detailed list of verses, traditions, poems, proper nouns, books and references. This book has been printed and published by Esra publishers center in Qom in 2002 A.D. (1381S.H.). The research and setting of this book has been done by Mr. Mohammad Reza Mostafä Pur.

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