Professor Assistant, Quranic Studies Research Center, Humanities Research Institute and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran , phorough.parsa@gmail.com
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Social Commentary of Holy Quran is like of the most important interpretive approaches of contemporary time dealt with solving and amending the contemporary issues of the society and as well the issue of women. In fact, the social commentators, under influence of the movements defense of women rights, have been presented the special commentaries of verses related to women which in many cases contradict with ancestor commentaries. The issue of this research is, examining and studying the relationship of social commentary of the verses with social demands of women that has been done by library method and historical-analytical approach. This research has been shown that social exegesis of the Quranic verse, has been had constructive effect and role in improving the status of women in the Islamic world. Many of social commentators of Quran, believe that the Islam and Islamic teachings during 15 centuries ago, accepted cultural privileges and especial social, political and economic rights for women, and the Quranic verses have been not had discriminatory approach towards the female gender. Men and women are equal from the view point of Quran regarding to human dignity and the creation. In addition to that, in the Quranic addresses, spiritual affairs, divine orders and prohibitions and rewards and Punishment of the world to come are considered equally. The right of education, legal prevention for polygamy and right of political participation were from the important demands of women in the Islamic world that social commentators regarding to commentators of previous centuries have been mentioned new views. Gender equality and right equity have been accepted by many of social commentators of Quran; even that, they do not believe to the rights similarity according to the natural differences of woman and man.