Document Type : Research Paper
Author
Associate Professor, Department of Qur'anic Sciences and Interpretation, University of Science and Education of the Holy Quran, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The discussion of appropriateness in the ancient interpretation, order and coherence in the later interpretation, and chaining and intertextuality in the contemporary text-oriented linguistics dictionary are among the topics that have been the focus of the old and new Muslim and non-Muslim Quran scholars from the beginning of the revelation of the Qur'an to the present age. Today, some orientalists believe that the Qur'an is a mixed and incoherent mass. Also, the repetition of verses in Quranic stories is due to the incoherence of the verses. Considering the importance of the discussion, it is necessary to examine the coherence and chaining of the verses related to the Quranic stories. The results of the research, which was carried out by the analytical-descriptive method, show that: a. In the early Meccan surahs, the reader is not faced with complete stories and only their main events are mentioned; b. The goals in the first surahs are moral and educational, and the way of telling stories is sharp and striking, and monotonous music dominates the surahs; c. Narrative parts and in a first way, retribution-oriented stories with the verses before and after them on the one hand, and with other retribution-oriented stories of other surahs, as well as on a macro level, with the life of the prophet (PBUH), have inter-surah and intertextual relationships; d. The narrative beginnings of these stories follow one or more common and formulated patterns; e. The middle part of the stories contains structural events, and in fact, the narration of the stories is directly related to this part; f. The endings of narrations of the stories usually end with a verse that refers to a lesson or a moral message; g. retribution-oriented stories of the first Makkah surahs are considered to be the bearers of the first verbal communication of Islam through the prophet (PBUH), and they present a miniature of the entire Quranic stories and prepare the mental background of the Quran's audience
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