A Comparative Comparison of the Gospel of John with the Holy Quran from the Artistic Illustration Perspective

Subject Areas : Two quarterly scientific commentary of the revelation texts

ali fathollahi ¹ , Ruhollah Nouri ² , Farshad Mirzaei Motlagh ³

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Islamic Religions and Mysticism, Islamic Azad University, Khorramabad Branch, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 - PhD student in Persian language and literature, Lorestan University
3 - Department of Persian Language and Literature, Khorramabad Branch Islamic Azad University, , Khorramabad, Iran.

Received: 2020-06-07 Accepted : 2021-01-04 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: Holy Quran, Gospel of John, artistic illustration,

Abstract :

          One way to express meaning is to use artistic illustration. Rhetorical-artistic illustration has tools such as: allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, etc .; These tools are used to sensualize spiritual and abstract matters. In this research, a comparative study of the Gospel of John with the Holy Quran from the perspective of artistic illustration has been considered. Due to the simple prose and narrative-story format of the book, the author of the Gospel of John has used less artistic images than the Holy Quran; in other words, the multiplicity of spiritual meanings and themes in the Holy Qur'an, which include monotheistic, religious, moral, theological, and otherworldly truths, are all abstract and abstract matters embodied by the means of artistic illustration. But these truths and spiritual matters are seldom seen in the Gospel of John; So that the statistics of the use of image-making tools in the Gospel of John is 36 and is not comparable to the Holy Quran.