جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « umm al-qura » در نشریات گروه « علوم قرآن و حدیث »

"Qaryah" is the most frequent word belonging to the semantic field of "town/ village" in the Holy Qur'an. In recent decades, the discussions about semantic distinctions between "Qaryah" and other words belonging to the same semantic field such as "Madīnah" and "Balad" have drawn the attention of Qur'anic scholars widely. However, a review of lexicographical and exegetical sources indicates that there is not enough knowledge about (A) the construction-process of the Qur'anic word "Qaryah", (B) the semantic components of this word, and (C) the characteristics of this type of "town/village" in the context of revelation of the Holy Qur'an. Adopting the etymological approach, the present research is an attempt to trace the oldest history of the word "Qaryah" in proto-Afroasiatic, and study the semantic changes of this word towards the Qur'anic Arabic, and reexamine its semantic components in the Holy Qur'an. The present study shows that the Qur'anic word "Qaryah" is rooted in two different stems and constructed from a hybrid model. According to linguistic data and Qur'anic usages of the word, "Qaryah" was referring to the towns/villages which were playing the role of campgrounds for travelers at the time of revelation due to their locations in the middle of routes. Moreover, this research provides a new explanation for the reasons of calling Mecca 'Umm al-Qurā in the Holy Qur'an.

After the time of Fitrat, the Holy Prophet (PBUH) was sent to an ignorant and depraved society due to ethnic and racial prejudices. An "Ummii prophet" who was both the seal of the prophets and the agent of ending ignorance and ummiyyat, with a miracle of the kind of book and expression and language . The prophecy of the prophet and, consequently, the special and exclusive description of "Ummii" for him, has been the view of a large number of scholars and has yielded various results. Among them, "illiterate", "non-Jewish" and "attributed to Umm al-Qura or Umm" have been more dominant semantic aspects for the word Ummii. Looking at this concept, if the context of the verses of the Qur'an (as the source and reference of this interpretation), the "spirit of meaning" of the words and the "system of levels" in the words, as well as the role and influence of the "language of the Qur'an" are considered.a clearer picture will be obtained that upon which and due to the position of the Prophet's finality, the ummiyyat of the prophet is different and beyond the ummiyyat of other human beings and has a unifying and all-encompassing concept and extends to the restoration of human innate principles.