تمثیل‌ های جامعه‌ شناسانه در نصوص اسلامی

Abstract

This article is concerned with sociological metaphors in religious texts as a issue of social ‎theology. ‎Social theology is a discipline that teaches us the views of religious leaders, i.e ‎God, the prophets, and ‎the Imams on human social life, through studies on religious ‎sources (Quran and Hadiths). This type of ‎research is, indeed, very important, for it ‎teaches us the views of religious authorities that are ‎necessary for the improvement of our ‎social life, and is a complementary studies for that of ‎sociological and social philosophy. ‎This research can also be considered as an step towards formulating ‎a Shi‘i / Islamic social ‎theory.‎ This type of research is essencially new and innovative. Three types of metaphors, i.e. ‎organic, ‎mechanical and (market and game) field theories, were dealt with and ‎interpretated. Although these ‎metaphors were existed in religious sources, they had not ‎been studied by sociological approach. The ‎initiative of this article rests on this type of ‎sociological approach towards religious text studies. This ‎type of research, brings the ‎religious social texts to the scene of our daily social life and benefits from ‎them for the ‎promotion of social conditions and situations. However, multiplicity and plurality of ‎‎sociological metaphors in Shi‘i / Islamic texts, at the same time, indicates that: Human’s ‎social life has a ‎very complicated and ambigious nature, which can talk about its existence ‎only through, metaphore, ‎comparison and allegory‎