Studying "the nature of society" from the viewpoint of contemporary Moslem sociologists and intellectuals, the writer believes that society lacks in an original nature on itsown. In other words, though Moslem intellectuals reject the Durkheimian notion of the originality of society, they agree on Gourvitchian social determinism.
If we accept the originality of society, then the society will have specific and unique regulations apart from the regulations of its members. We can discover these regulations according to the Quran, which presents the comparative and analytic approaches for studying society. In fact, the Quran confirms the sociological approach.
The analytic approach is based on the comparative approach. Comparing societies, we can recognize the constructive and destructive elements of a society. Afler forming models based on the comparative approach, we can focus on specific societies. The synchronic comparative model, the diachronic compartive model
and the synthetic model have all been used in the Quran. As an example for the third model one can refer to chapter 26 - The Poets.
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