Faculty Member, Research Institute of Islamic Culture and Thought
Abstract
Engineering of culture and cultural engineering are the intelligent and effective method of designing and implementation of roadmap of cultural change. Any allocation of duties among reference groups and related organizations, valuation of cultural elements, determination of educational and executive priorities or legislation of useful laws require engineering. The most appropriate and useful way to achieve this map is to utilize the useful and existing successful experiences related to this issue.
The present article is an attempt to study cultural engineering model based on the Quran and tradition. In order to find out the said Islamic model, priority has been given to the Quran and then the traditions. Attention has been paid to the gradual revelation of the Quran and order of the revelation of its Chapters. Traditions have been used to complement the brief explanations of the Quran. In order to implement this model in societies and communities in the post-revelation era, the rule of ‘adaptation and compatibility’, which has been emphasized by the infallible Imams, is proposed. Thus in the present article in the first place the quality and stages of finding a cultural engineering method in Islamic courses has been explained. In the next step, on the basis of requirements of the rule of adaptation and compatibility, it is proposed to adapt the Quranic cultural engineering to the Iranian society in two stages with the cooperation of different human and social sciences: First, application and adaptation of the Islamic teachings to the Iranian society; and second, offering specific methods for the implementation of these teachings with regard to different cultural strata of the Iranian society.
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