Methodological and Content Criticism of Supposition of the Context of Thematic Units (Rukū‘āt) in the Process of Understanding the Holy Qur'an (With an Emphasis on the Viewpoint of the Late Lisānī Fashārakī)

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Ph.D. Student in Qur'an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

2 Associate Professor, Department of Qur'an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

10.22081/jqr.2024.68025.3910

Abstract

Over the past decades, due to the Islamic Republic’s support for public education in the interpretation and contemplation of the Holy Qur'an and efforts to foster Qur'anic culture, many people who were concerned for the interpretation have made attempts and provided methods for people's understanding and benefitting from the guidance of the Holy Qur'an. One of the most extensive of these activities is the contemplation on thematic research presented by the late Lisānī Fashārakī, and many enthusiasts have turned to this field. However, the method that this Qur'an scholar has presented for determining the context is a textual and unreliable method that cannot be the basis for determining the context. He has based determining the context on the thematic units (rukū‘āt) that was used for tarāwīḥ prayers in the first century AH. Using two axes of methodological and content criticism, this research introduces the basis for the context of rukū‘āt as an obvious flaw in the process of understanding, both in terms of method and objectively and in terms of content, in understanding Sūrat al-Furqān, and presents the use of thematic unity as a working procedure for determining the context, which can lead to the dynamics of interpretation.

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