Semiotic-Semantic Analysis of Place in Story of Prophet Moses (AS)

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD student in Arabic language and literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Bo Ali University, Hamadan, Iran

4 Professor of the Department of French Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Place is one of the important components of a literary work. Its importance is twofold in narrative works and it plays the biggest role in revealing facts. Qur'anic stories are not exempt from this rule; reflection on these stories shows that God chooses the places of the stories with a special elegance to achieve the educational goals of the Qur'an so that the reader can see himself in that environment and understand the existing conditions. The necessity of delving into the text of the Qur'an for a better understanding of the concepts and facilitating the further inference of this divine book to encourage everyone to study it further, prompted us to focus on the story of Prophet Moses (as), which is one of the most important stories in the Qur'an. Using the descriptive-analytical method and setting the story of Moses (as) as a model for other stories in the Qur'an, this research discovers the role of different types of places according to the semiotic-semantic approach and due to the functions of the place and its role in this story. A semiotic-semantic glance at the places in the story of Moses (as) shows how the beautiful and instructive expression of the story from the narrator's tongue in the form of many events and the use of the element of place by creating many spaces of induction, transcendence, whirlwind, etc. on the way of the hero to invite people to Monotheism pulls out the places from their original meaning and makes them serve the purpose to help the hero reach his destination.
 

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  • Receive Date: 05 January 2023
  • Revise Date: 02 October 2023
  • Accept Date: 06 December 2023

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