The History of the Discipline “Tanāsub al-Āyāt” (The Verses Coherence)
Subject Areas : -Atiye Akbari 1 , mohammad ali mahdavi rad 2 , Rouhollah Shahidi 3
1 - Ph. D. Student in Quran and Hadith Studies, Farabi Campus, Tehran University, Qom, Iran.
2 - Professor in Quran and Hadith Studies, Farabi Cmpus, Tehran University, Qom, Iran.
3 - Assistan Professor in Quran and Hadith Studies, Farabi campus, Tehran University, Qom, Iran.
Keywords: The Relationship of the Quranic Verses and Surahs, Inimitability of the Quran in order, History of The Discipline of “Tanāsub al-Āyāt, The Coherence of The Quran,
Abstract :
The Discipline of “Tanāsub al-Āyāt” was introduced as a science in the eighth century, and what is stated in the books of the Qur'anic sciences as the history of this science is focused on the works of this century and afterward in which they explicitly have mentioned the kinds of relation and connection between verses and suras. The present study aimed to answer the question that what was the reason of the proportion idea and what was the path of Muslim scholars to convert the proportion between the Quran’s verses and suras into a scientific concern? this idea is rooted in the area of the I’jāz of the Qur'an order and the concept of order from the third century. According to the commentators, the conversion of the relation between the words to the relation between the verses is the turning point of this path, which is seen in the Bāqilānī’s works. Then, in the fifth century, the introduction of a relativistic attitude to commentary books such as Sheikh Tusi's commentary, al-Tibyān, was also a ground for the knowledge proportion. Finally, in the sixth century, the intersection of the commentary science with the subject of the expressive I’jāz of the Qur'an, which was particularly raised in the interpretation of the Zamakhsharī, al-Kashāf, became the beginning of the growth and acquisition of this knowledge among commentators and scholars.
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