The Association of Surahs to Certain Time Periods and Events
Journal Title: Dini Araştırmalar -Altı Aylık Bilimsel Dergi- - Year 2016, Vol 19, Issue 48
Abstract
Efforts to understand the Quran has continued uninterrupted since its revelation period and the interpretation activity has been carried out using certain methods until today. There are three different approaches to the interpretation of the Qur’an. Firstly, commentaries that are written according to the composition of Companion Osman’s mushaf; secondly, commentaries that are based on a subject that do not take this into account; the third one is the interpretation made by organizing the verses according to the time of revelation. Identifying the order of revelation and making the interpretation in accordance with this order is also used as a method. For this purpose, researchers have benefited from knowledge of asbab al-nuzul and Meccan-medinan verses. On the other hand, the thought that the verses cannot be identifi ed according to chronological order, has led the researchers to classify the verses according to specifi c periods and make comments based on the events of that period. These studies sometimes have encompassed the whole peroid and sometimes in-depth studies conducted on the time period of certain ranges. This article discusses the work of four recent researchers who classifi ed Qur’an surahs according to time periods. These studies have classifi ed surahs according to narrations about their time of revelation and the style and content of the surahs. They also associated the surahs with the events that took place in this period. Additionally this article focuses on the methods used and the results obtained in these relevant works and questions the possibility of achieving common results in such kind classifi - cations that are based on ijtihad. However, due to the impossibility of a time classifi - cation of surahs that is accepted by everyone, this paper also shows the impossibility of reaching a common conclusion in the studies on periodic classifi cation of surahs.
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Burhan ÇONKOR
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