sayed mahmood tayyebhoseini; Muhammad Hussein Shirzad; Muhammad Hassan Shirzad
Abstract
"A-DJ-R" , one of the most ancient triconsonantal roots in the Semitic languages, is used 108 times in 99 Qur'anic verses. Paying attention to the variety of Qur'anic usages of the root "A -DJ -R", Muslim scholars have enumerated up to 6 different meanings for it. Based upon methodology of historical ...
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"A-DJ-R" , one of the most ancient triconsonantal roots in the Semitic languages, is used 108 times in 99 Qur'anic verses. Paying attention to the variety of Qur'anic usages of the root "A -DJ -R", Muslim scholars have enumerated up to 6 different meanings for it. Based upon methodology of historical semantics, this study discovers the oldest meaning of the root "A -DJ -R" in the Semitic languages. The different semantic changes of this root, then, are investigated from the proto-Semitic language to the Qur'anic Arabic. This essay indicates that the word "Adjr" conveys three meanings in the Holy Qur'an: firstly, "wage" which is the oldest meaning of the root, and secondly, "reward", and finally, "bride-wealth". These three meanings are used respectively in 24, 70, and 5 Qur'anic verses. Moreover, this study answers an important question that why the Holy Qur'an used the word "Adjr" in reference to the concept of "bride-wealth".
Ahmad Pakatchi; Muhammad Hussein Shirzad; Muhammad Hassan Shirzad
Abstract
"Security" which means feeling calm and relieved from fears and threats, is one of the most essential needs of human beings that has received widespread attention from the Holy Qur'an. However, due to historical-discourse distances from the time of revelation of the Holy Qur'an, security is often confined ...
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"Security" which means feeling calm and relieved from fears and threats, is one of the most essential needs of human beings that has received widespread attention from the Holy Qur'an. However, due to historical-discourse distances from the time of revelation of the Holy Qur'an, security is often confined to concepts such as fighting or verses such as Anfal/60, and other important aspects of this issue has been far from the view of Islamic scholars. Therefore, this study, taking an anthropological approach towards security, tries to study fear of holes, one of the main but neglected types of fear in pre-Islamic Arab culture, and illustrates some of the lesser-known teachings of the Holy Qur'an in this regard. In this essay, it was concluded that the fear of holes can be classified into four major categories: fear of hole as a destructive cause, fear of hole as a too narrow place, fear of hole as a place for communication, and ultimately fear of hole as a place for intrusion. This anthropological achievement can shed more light on neglected dimensions of security in the Holy Qur'an, and thus, help Muslim scholars to comprehend some Qur'anic verses more precisely.
Ahmad Pakatchi; Muhammad Hassan Shirzad; Muhammad Hussain Shirzad
Volume 3, Issue 1 , July 2019, , Pages 25-48
Abstract
The Arabic words "Faqr" and "Ġinā" are repeatedly found in the Holy Qur'an in the syntagmatic axis and have shaped the recurring opposite couple in the Qur'anic verses. A glance at the Muslim scholars' opinion shows that they have just mentioned the lexical meaning of these words and did not have much ...
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The Arabic words "Faqr" and "Ġinā" are repeatedly found in the Holy Qur'an in the syntagmatic axis and have shaped the recurring opposite couple in the Qur'anic verses. A glance at the Muslim scholars' opinion shows that they have just mentioned the lexical meaning of these words and did not have much knowledge about the process of their meaning-formation. Using historical linguistic data and general Anthropological patterns, this study tries to explore the cultural backgrounds in which "Faqr" and "Ġinā" were formed. This study indicates that the distinctions between sedentary lifestyle and nomadic one in Arabian Peninsula could lead to different perceptions of the world, and hence to distinctive or sometimes contrary meaning-formation of the same phenomena. This study shows that "Faqr" and "Ġinā" are born out of the mentality of sedentary Arabs towards poverty and wealth in cultural-economic context in Arabian Peninsula.
