عنوان

مناهج إسلامية وغربية نحو القرآن: تحليل بلاغي وموضوعي للسورة الرابعة (سورة النساء)

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انگلیسی

مناهج إسلامية وغربية نحو القرآن: تحليل بلاغي وموضوعي للسورة الرابعة (سورة النساء)

[Thesis]

Nadeen Mustafa A.  Alsulaimi

Valkenberg, Wilhelmus G.B.M

The Catholic University of America

2018

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Committee members: Griffith, Sidney H.; Miller II, Robert D.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-01016-1

Ph.D.

Religion and Culture

The Catholic University of America

2018

The Qur'an's composition is a longstanding concern in Muslim scholarship. Some classical scholars developed the notion of correlations and nazm to understand the order of surahs and verses, but their method is focused mainly on linear arrangement. Modern Muslim scholars attempt to theorize the Qur'an's organization and coherence. The surahs are examined as units and their arrangement is asserted to compose pairs and groups. Each surah has a central theme running throughout its parts which contain various other subjects. The identification of the main themes and the division into sections differ from one exegete to another due to the interpreters' choices of thematic breaks rather than textual signs. Long Madinan surahs are viewed as inconsistent by Western scholars, as well, and not all Madinan surahs are examined literarily and structurally. To bring the two parties to a common ground, this study uses two methods (ring-structural analysis by Michel Cuypers and surah-pairs theory by Amin Islahi) to examine the structure and consistency of the Madinan surah 4. The idea of symmetry and rings can be traced in some classical and contemporary Muslim exegesis. This study shows that the selected text is coherent and composed concentrically in mirror-form. The application of ring-theory identifies the main theme based on sectioning the surah's parts rhetorically into two large sections. The center, located in (v.87), highlights the overarching core of theme of Islam: monotheism and the certainty of the Resurrection Day. This central pivot establishes society's foundations and interactions according to faith and righteous deeds. This result is employed in pairing Q 4 and Q 5 and shows that the two surahs compose a large coherent unit in which the first declares the covenant with God whereas the second proclaims the religion's completion. Both surahs mention many legal laws (e.g. marriages and purity) and theological matters (e.g. Christian theology). Those contents should be read in parallel. The structural and thematic parallelism of the two surahs can create plural views and flexible laws that nourish Muslim identity, fit with modern lives, and consider the need for a reciprocal dialogical relationship between the two academic worlds.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Rhetoric

Language, literature and linguistics;Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Islam;Quran;Rhetoric thematic;Sura four;Tafsir;Women

Philips, Robert Michael

Valkenberg, Wilhelmus G.B.M

Religion and Culture

The Catholic University of America

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