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The Semantic Analysis of the Word "Jihad" in the Quran

Document Type : علمی- ترویجی

Authors

Bijan Karami mir azizi 1
Asgar Babazadeh aghdam 2
Shabnam Bahrami 3
Zahra Ghasempour Ganjehlu 4

1 Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Quranic Sciences of Khoy, Iran;

3 M.A. of the Quran and Hadiths Sciences in Kharazmi Univesity, Tehran, Iran;

4 M.A. of the Quran and Hadiths at the Faculty of Quranic Sciences of Khoy, Iran;

https://doi.org/10.22054/ajsm.2017.7457
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 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.

Keywords

Semantics
Collocations
Replacements
Jihad
Fight
Seraje Monir
Volume 7, Issue 23
Summer 2016
Pages 129-150

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