The Semantical Study of Ta’wil in the Qur'an, With the Approaches of Distributional Semantics and Radial Network Theory.

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Ph.D. graduated/department Of Quran And Hadith Sciences/ Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

"Ta’wil" is one of the important subjects of Quranic sciences, with many applications in Quran and hadiths. "Ta’wil of the Qur'an" has an important place due to its connection with the field of understanding. Despite the fact that different theories have been proposed to express the meaning of Ta’wil in the Qur'an, numerous works of contemporary researchers trying to find this meaning indicate the lack of a comprehensive view. The current research tries to find the meaning of "Ta’wil" in Qur'an with descriptive-analytical method, through new semantic methods. For this purpose, two methods: "Distributional Corpus Analysis" and "the Theory of Radial Network" were used, to obtain the different meanings of Ta’wil in the Qur'an. According to the Qur'anic context, and to analyse the relationship between the meanings of this word. Based on the distributional method, two general meanings of "referring to a criterion" and "origin of creating a phenomenon" were obtained for this word in Qur'an. The latter meaning has extended to four meanings: the interpretation of dreams (the origin of creating dreams), the purpose and meaning of the doer (the origin of the action), existential facts, and concepts of words (the origin of the Qur'an). By the theory of radial networks, the protoscene word "Āl", meaning "tent pillar", forms a radial network of meaning for the root "Awl". One of the achievements of the evaluation of "Ta'wil" theories with the results of semantical study of this word, is the removal of the meaning of "the End" from the set of meanings.

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Researches of Quran and Hadith Sciences
Volume 21, Issue 3 - Serial Number 63
November 2024
Pages 159-186

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  • Receive Date: 30 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 19 February 2024
  • Accept Date: 29 September 2024
  • Publish Date: 21 November 2024

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