Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works

This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to vi...

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Main Author:	Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain
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Published:	Association of Muslim Social Scientists 2009
Subjects:	BP130 Works about the Qurʼān
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spelling	iium-55362011-12-19T08:24:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/5536/ Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain BP130 Works about the Qurʼān This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. By an analytical study of the semantic fields and contextual use of the Qur’an’s key conceptual terms, Izutsu explores the semantic factors believed to have been employed by the Qur’an in its Islamization of the jahili (pre-Islamic Arab) worldview. Such an approach exhibits that the Qur’an’s linguistic vision of reality is internally coherent but culturally and historically conditioned. Following a textual analysis, this study critically examines, from both an ethical and a theological perspective, the semantic theory that Izutsu applies to the Qur’an’s key concepts in his two works: God and Man in the Qur’an and Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. The objective is to investigate the extent to which semantic analysis could enrich our understanding of the ontological problems raised in the Qur’an. Association of Muslim Social Scientists 2009 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5536/1/Izutsu.PDF application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/5536/3/portrait.pdf Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain (2009) Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 26 (4). pp. 1-23. ISSN 0742-6763 http://www.amss.org/AJISS/CurrentIssue.aspx
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description	This paper examines the structural semantic approach based on the theory of linguistic relativity to scriptural language as exemplified in Toshihiko Izutsu’s studies of the Qur’anic weltanschauung. According to this theory, each language contains a particular worldview that causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. By an analytical study of the semantic fields and contextual use of the Qur’an’s key conceptual terms, Izutsu explores the semantic factors believed to have been employed by the Qur’an in its Islamization of the jahili (pre-Islamic Arab) worldview. Such an approach exhibits that the Qur’an’s linguistic vision of reality is internally coherent but culturally and historically conditioned. Following a textual analysis, this study critically examines, from both an ethical and a theological perspective, the semantic theory that Izutsu applies to the Qur’an’s key concepts in his two works: God and Man in the Qur’an and Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. The objective is to investigate the extent to which semantic analysis could enrich our understanding of the ontological problems raised in the Qur’an.
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title	Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works
title_short	Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works
title_full	Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works
title_fullStr	Semantics of the Qur’anic Weltanschauung: a critical analysis of Toshihiko Izutsu’s works
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publisher	Association of Muslim Social Scientists
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