Qur’an and Social Sciences

Qur’an and Social Sciences

The Policy-Making Implications of Verses 125 to 128 of Surah An-Nahl Regarding the Management of Protests

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Asghar Eftekhari
Saeed Naderi Asl
Political Sociology, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Political Sciences, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
10.22034/arq.2024.196975
Abstract
Managing protests as a pervasive phenomenon is one of the challenges of policymaking process to which political systems have paid special attention. In the Islamic Republic of Iran, given its Islamic nature, it is necessary for the policymakers to be based on Islamic principles and Sharia sources (book, tradition, consensus and reason). Therefore, the current research seeks to answer the main question "What are the policy-making implications of verses 125 to 128 of Surah An-Nahl for protest management?" and for this purpose, a combination of the methods of interpretation of the Qur'an to the Qur'an and the method of cross-question has been used, in order to obtain policy-making implications while examining verses based on other verses and providing evidence from Qur'anic interpretations. An analysis of 25 codes shows that the principles governing the protest management policy are: 1) Giving priority to the use of interactive methods based on wisdom, 2) Preaching and debate in the better way, the rule of reciprocity, 3) Patience in punishment, and 4) Compliance with moral principles. Based on them, 8 policy implications related to protest management policy were obtained.
Keywords
Protest Management
Policy Making
the Holy Qur’an
Surah An-Nahl

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 23 December 2023
  • Revise Date 10 March 2024
  • Accept Date 06 April 2024