‘‘TELKHISU'L-MIFTAH’‘ - DJELO O ZNANOSTI KOJA RASKRIVA ASPEKTE KUR'ANSKOG I'DŽAZA
QUR’ANIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

Summary/Abstract: This paper at the beginning discusses language as the Divine sign on the basis of comments of 22nd ayat of surah Er-Rum and reveals perceptions of Islamic commentators. Further, on the basis of the same ayat, it treats plurality of human speeches and languages and plurality of opinions on that matter. Before presentation of some phonetic-phonological and linguistics results of contemporary linguistics which correspond with stated hermeneutic efforts of Qur’an commentators, our attention is directed to phonetic studies and sound aspects of Arabic language during the early period of Islam. The paper especially deals with phonetic and linguistic works of two great scholars, the founders of Arabic linguistics, Sibevejh and Ibn Džinni. After partial presentation of some classical and contemporary Islamic linguists and Qur’an commentators and their views on the language, we have shortly discussed and formulated three assumptions - primarily on the basis of Qur’anic ayats and also on the basis of generally accepted linguistic comprehension - of that what we have named, in this paper, Qur’anic theory of language and speech.

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