الجمالية الشعرية والرياضية في نص القرآن الكريم الحجة في تناسقهما LITERARY AND MATHEMATICAL POETICS OF THE QUR'AN: SYNTHESIS AS AN ARGUMENT | ||
| سياقات اللغة والدراسات البينية | ||
| Volume 3, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 345-361 PDF (589.09 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/siaqat.2018.203609 | ||
| Author | ||
| Esad Duraković | ||
| Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Stylistic and linguistic studies on the Qur’an have been written for several centuries since the stylistic and linguistic studies have found abundance of material in the text of the Holy Qur’an. However, we have seen in recent times the rise of specialist studies that analyse the Qur’anic text from the aspect of mathematics. There certainly were certain attempts in the past to point to certain mathematical and numerical aspects of the Holy Text, but modern mathematical methods have produced particularly interesting results. Rhymed and rhythmical prose are a well-known characteristic of the poetic text in general, while the Qur’anic text also abounds with expressive and connotative meanings. Opposite to that, the language of mathematics is characterised by precision and denotative features; it lacks the figurative meaning. Keeping in mind such diverse, even opposite values of the two languages, it appears impossible for a text, even Qur’anic, to simultaneously contain both of those languages. However, it is interesting that the Qur’anic text contains a kind of a miracle in that respect, in a positive sense, because a multitude of mathematical terms and categories in it contain meanings that are not contained in the language of mathematics outside that context. In other words, many mathematical terms and categories in this text acquire certain symbolic and figurative meanings, becoming thus extraordinary stylemes of the poetical language, and that occurs owing to the strong activity of the forces of the context. Consequently, it follows that mathematical terms in the Qur’anic text realise stylistic values, and, contrary to the expectations, the poetical and mathematical languages achieve extraordinary harmony in a unique universe of that text. This study analyses the capability of the Qur’anic text to realise the poetic synthesis of the poetical and mathematical languages, and that is a characteristic of its poetics. In other words, the study is aimed at proving that the extraordinariness of the text (ijaz) is not realised solely in the domain of style and language, but also in its surprising ability to transform the language of mathematics into the sphere of poetical values of language, to realise a kind of synthesis of stylistic and mathematical poetics. Essentially, that successful synthesis acts argumentatively. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Qur'an; Stylistic; Rhetoric; linguistics; mathematics; Argument | ||
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