Hawzah News Agency (Qom, Iran) – Today, at the conference of "Research Ethics, Requirements and Solutions", which was held at Jamiat al-Zahra Islamic University, Ayatollah Alireza Arafi stated, "The research area requires an Islamic examination in three fields of research philosophy, jurisprudence and ethics, that means research as a mental creativity is a phenomenon that should be addressed from three Islamic perspectives."

Stating that the scope and the radius of work are among the factors that determine the extent of one’s responsibilities, Ayatollah Arafi noted, "Since the human movement and development is based on research, the researcher’s responsibility is very great."

Head of Iranian seminaries emphasized that now instead of focusing on quantity, the seminary must pay more attention to the quality of reconstruction and establishment of methodological foundations in religious studies and asserted, “Now, in order to develop in the field of humanities, we need 20 new jurisprudence disciplines and 15 additional Islamic philosophies to fill the gaps in the foundations of ijtihad.”