Bijan Karami mir azizi; Asgar Babazadeh aghdam; Shabnam Bahrami; Zahra Ghasempour Ganjehlu
Abstract
Semantics, as a branch of linguistic, is a knowledge that analyzes the meaning of the words and sentences of a text. With this knowledge, we can recognize the exact positions of the words and their compound forms through a semantic system. The word "jihad", a very important word in the Quran, is considered ...
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Semantics, as a branch of linguistic, is a knowledge that analyzes the meaning of the words and sentences of a text. With this knowledge, we can recognize the exact positions of the words and their compound forms through a semantic system. The word "jihad", a very important word in the Quran, is considered from this perspective. This word is one of the complex concepts that has long been the focus of attention in Islamic schools, and its frequent appearance throughout the Quran indicatives its importance. The present study seeks to answer these two questions: What are the collocations and replacements for the word Jihad? And what are semantic factors of this word? Thus after considering about forty-one verses of the Holy Quran and pragmatic analyses of jihad, we found that the term jihad has the connotation of soft wars and power which is quite the opposite of the general view towards it, considering it as a war with weapons. Accordingly, it often means power and war-like software. That is to say, it focuses on promising, advising, and preaching. Therefore, by this way, we can dispel the unfair propagations, especially in the present time that the enemies of Islam try to propagate so called Islam with power and swords.
seyed mahmoud tayeb hoseini; khadije banaee
Volume 7, Issue 22 , April 2016, , Pages 133-166
Abstract
The word ‘holy’ in terms of concept and meaning is of one of the most important and yet complex Quranic Words that has not been considered through a semantic approach. This study has tried to analyze this word in the Quran based on an analytical and descriptive method. In this study, by drawing ...
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The word ‘holy’ in terms of concept and meaning is of one of the most important and yet complex Quranic Words that has not been considered through a semantic approach. This study has tried to analyze this word in the Quran based on an analytical and descriptive method. In this study, by drawing on the context and relationship rule and the conceptual relation of the word ‘holy’ with its collocations and its replacement words, we have tried to pinpoint the use of the term throughout the verses. The word ‘holy’ in the Quran has a wide variety of meanings, and it has been used in 11 senses such as a gratuitous gift, a gift without loss and degradation, a gift without asking, closed with a seal, and useful. This word, based on the replacement axis, is also on the same semantic group with the words ‘great’ and ‘generous’. The discovery of the semantic components of the word ‘holy’ has revealed a minute part of the sciences hidden in the verses and indicates that the Quran is based on a systematic thought.
