Applying the Theory of Symmetric Order in the Holy Quran; A Novel Approach to Structural Coherence in Surah Yusuf

Document Type : The scientific research paper

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Ph.D. Candidate of Qur’an and Hadith Sciences, Major of Comparative Tafsir, Yazd University, Iran

Abstract

Abstract : One of the types of Qur'an studies in recent decades among Orientalists and Muslims is the new researches in the knowledge of new fields of order of the Holy Qur'an. Meanwhile, researches based on symmetric order or reverse order have been able to take a good place in this. The present article examines the coherence of Surah Mubaraka Yusuf by adopting the descriptive-analytical method. This article first introduces the concept of symmetrical order theory and then analyzes the rhetoric of Surah Yusuf. Surah Yusuf is divided into sixteen sections and the relationship between the sections of the surah is established in reverse and presents a general and comprehensive model of the relationship of the sections of the surah with each other . One of the results of this research is the proof of the orderly structure of Surah Yusuf in the form of the theory of symmetrical order.

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Article Title [Persian]

کاربست نظریه نظم متقارن در قرآن کریم؛ نگاهی نو به انسجام ساختاری سوره یوسف

Author [Persian]

  • حمیدرضا فاضلی
دانشجوی دکتری علوم قرآن و حدیث، گرایش تفسیر تطبیقی، دانشگاه یزد، ایران.
Abstract [Persian]

یکی از گونه های قرآن شناسی ده های اخیر در میان مستشرقان و مسلمانان، پژوهش های نوین در شناخت ساحت های جدید نظم قرآن کریم است . در این میان پژوهش های مبتنی بر نظم متقارن یا همان نظم معکوس توانسته است جایگاه خوبی را در این میان به خود اختصاص دهد . مقاله حاضر با در پیش گرفتن روش توصیفی ـ تحلیلی، به بررسی انسجام سوره مبارکه یوسف می پردازد . این مقاله، نخست به معرفی مفهوم نظریه نظم متقارن پرداخته و پس از آن به تحلیل بلاغی سوره یوسف می پردازد . سوره یوسف به شانزده بخش تقسیم می شود و به صورت معکوس میان بخش های سوره ارتباط برقرار شده و یک مدل کلی و فراگیر را از ارتباط بخش های سوره با یکدیگر ارائه می کند . از نتایج این پژوهش اثبات ساختار منظم سوره مبارکه یوسف در قالب نظریه نظم متقارن می باشد.

Keywords [Persian]

  • نظم متقارن
  • سوره یوسف
  • قرآن کریم
  • صنعت قلب
  • بلاغت سامی
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