The Quran: Contemporary Studies

Author = Babak Mashhadi

Comparative Analysis of the Theological and Literary Foundations of English Translations of Sūrat al‑Mā’idah

Volume 4, Issue 14, March 2026, Pages 119-140

10.22034/qns.2026.23622.1166

Babak Mashhadi; Mahmoud Karimi

Overview of the Book “Tafsīr i Sūra-yi Ṣaff” by Martyr Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei

Volume 4, Issue 14, March 2026, Pages 161-173

10.22034/qns.2026.23641.1167

Babak Mashhadi

Characteristics of Jews in the Quran and Strategies for Confronting Zionism and Global Arrogance with an Emphasis on the Quranic Thoughts of Imam Khamenei

Volume 4, Issue 13, December 2025, Pages 9-47

10.22034/qns.2025.22439.1150

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Ali Rezaei Isfahani

Overview of the Book “Critique of Doubts about the Holy Quran” by Ayatullah Muḥammad Hādī Maʿrifat

Volume 4, Issue 12, September 2025, Pages 157-164

10.22034/qns.2025.22066.1140

Babak Mashhadi

A Comparative Study of the Social Effects of Death Awareness in the Quran and the Ṣaḥīfah Sajjādiyyah

Volume 4, Issue 11, May 2025, Pages 43-70

10.22034/qns.2025.20844.1115

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Rassafi

Book Review: Mustashriqān va Qur’ān: Naqd va barrasī-ye Ārā’-e Mustashriqān darbārih-ye Qur’ān [The Orientalists and the Quran: A Critique and Study of the Opinions of Orientalists about the Quran]

Volume 4, Issue 11, May 2025, Pages 166-173

10.22034/qns.2025.21284.1124

Babak Mashhadi

Book Review: Mustashriqān va tārīkh-gudhārī dar Qur’ān: Pazhūhishī dar tārīkh-gudhārī-ye Qur’ān az manẓar-i khāvar-shināsān [Orientalists and Chronology in the Quran: A Study on Quranic Chronology from the Perspective of Orientalists]

Volume 3, Issue 10, March 2025, Pages 158-163

10.22034/qns.2025.20843.1114

Babak Mashhadi

Comparative Methodology of the English Translations by George Sale, Arberry, and Qarai of selected verses from Sūrat al-Fātiḥa

Volume 3, Issue 9, December 2024, Pages 137-166

10.22034/qns.2024.19495.1089

Babak Mashhadi; Mahmoud Karimi

Book Review: Codex Mashhad

Volume 3, Issue 9, December 2024, Pages 167-170

10.22034/qns.2024.20093.1100

Babak Mashhadi

A Critical Analysis of Some Quranic Foundations of Andrew Rippin

Volume 3, Issue 7, May 2024, Pages 27-47

10.22034/qns.2024.18344.1068

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Hasan Zamani

Book Review: Maʿrifat, Muḥammad Hādī, and Rustam Nizhād, Mahdī, Al-Tafsīr al-Atharī al-Jāmiʿ, Qum: Mu’assisah Farhangī Intishāratī al-Tamhīd, 1387Sh/2008. 17 vols. [in Arabic]

Volume 2, Issue 6, March 2024, Pages 141-143

10.22034/qns.2024.18302.1066

Babak Mashhadi

A Comparative Study of the Characteristics and Functions of Nature and the Position of Man in it in the Quran and the Bible with an Emphasis on the Perspectives of Imam Khamenei

Volume 2, Issue 5, December 2023, Pages 64-92

10.22034/qns.2023.17404.1048

Babak Mashhadi; Ahmad Reza Meftah

Book Review: Dr. Muḥammad-Javad Eskandarlū, Qur᾽ān wa ulūm-i siyāsī wa ijtimāʿī az nigāh-i Mustashriqān (dar sanjih-ye naqd-i shubuhāt) [The Quran and Political and Social Sciences from the Perspective of Orientalists (in the context of critiquing doubts)]

Volume 2, Issue 5, December 2023, Pages 167-173

10.22034/qns.2023.17565.1054

Babak Mashhadi

A Quranic Critique of the Orientalists’ Views on Ṭahāra

Volume 2, Issue 4, September 2023, Pages 72-85

10.22034/qns.2023.16372.1033

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Fakir Maybudi

Book Review: Dr. Muḥammad-ʿAli Rezaei-Esfahāni, Manṭiq-i tafsīr-i Qur’ān (4): mabāḥith-i jadīd dar dānish-i tafsīr (zabān-i Qur’ān, hirminutīk, farhang-i zamānih) [The Logic of the exegesis of the Quran (4): New discussions on the science of exegesis(the language of the Quran, Hermeneutics, The culture of the time)]

Volume 2, Issue 4, September 2023, Pages 130-135

10.22034/qns.2023.16979.1040

Babak Mashhadi

A Comparative Analysis of the Quranic Foundations of Imam Khamenei and Andrew Rippin

Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2023, Pages 23-46

10.22034/qns.2023.8109

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Hasan Zamani

Book Review: Dr. Muḥammad-ʿAli Rezaei-Esfahāni, Didgāh-i mutifakkirān-i muʿāṣir-i Qur’ānī: jarayānhā wa naẓarīyihā [The perspective of contemporary Quranic thinkers: currents and theories]

Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2023, Pages 121-127

10.22034/ًQNS.2023.8110

Babak Mashhadi

A Critique of the Article “God and His Attributes” in the Encyclopedia of the Qur᾽ān (EQ)

Volume 1, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 6-20

10.22034/qns.2023.7682

Babak Mashhadi; Muhammad-Ali Rizaei-Isfahani

Book Review: Manṭiq-i Tafsīr-i Qur’ān (2): Rawishhā wa Girāyishhāy-i Tafsīri-ye Qur’ān [The Logic of the exegesis of the Quran (2): Exegetical Methods and Approaches to the Quran]

Volume 1, Issue 2, February 2023, Pages 110-116

10.22034/qns.2023.7686

Babak Mashhadi

A Comparative Analysis of the English Translations of George Sale, Pickthal, Arberry, and Qarai of Sūra Al-Jinn

Volume 1, Issue 1, December 2022, Pages 7-23

10.22034/qns.2022.7393

babak Mashhadi; Muhammad Hasan Zamani

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