The linguistic construction of reality: Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic hermeneutics of the Qur’ānic Weltanschauung

Toshihiko Izutsu introduces semantic structural analysis to study the structures of the Qur‟ānic worldview. According to this theory of analysis, each language contains a peculiar weltanschauung which causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. Thus...

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Main Author:	Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain
Other Authors:	Thoha, Anis Malik
Format:	Book Chapter
Language:	English English
Published:	IIUM Press 2010
Subjects:	BP130 Works about the Qurʼān
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spelling	iium-25372012-05-22T01:56:48Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/2537/ The linguistic construction of reality: Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic hermeneutics of the Qur’ānic Weltanschauung Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain BP130 Works about the Qurʼān Toshihiko Izutsu introduces semantic structural analysis to study the structures of the Qur‟ānic worldview. According to this theory of analysis, each language contains a peculiar weltanschauung which causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. Thus by analytic study of the conceptual key-terms of a given language, it is possible to grasp the weltanschauung of the people who use that language as a tool of conceptualizing and interpreting the world in which they live. He employs this semantic theory to examine how the Qur‟ānic key-terms and its particular linguistic categorization of nonlinguistic reality represent subjectively its weltanschauung and its vision of reality. Such semantic approach to the Qur‟ān indicates that its Arabic language is internally coherent, a self-sufficient system of words into which all words have been integrated with an entirely new systemic interpretation; yet it is culturally and historically conditioned, from Jāhilī (pre-Islamic) period to Qur‟ānic era, and thus it is a subjective elaboration of reality. The focus of the present study is to examine critically from ethical and theological perspectives the semantic method Izutsu applies to the Qur‟ānic key-concepts in his two works, God and Man in the Qur’an and Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an. IIUM Press Thoha, Anis Malik 2010 Book Chapter NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2537/2/File.PDF application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/2537/1/3._Izutsu_KABIR.pdf Solihu, Abdul Kabir Hussain (2010) The linguistic construction of reality: Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic hermeneutics of the Qur’ānic Weltanschauung. In: Japanese Contribution to Islamic Studies: The legacy of Toshihiko Izutsu Interpreted. IIUM Press, Kuala Lumpur, pp. 17-39. ISBN 978-967-5272-63-9 http://rms.research.iium.edu.my/bookstore/Products/166-wwwgooglecom.aspx
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description	Toshihiko Izutsu introduces semantic structural analysis to study the structures of the Qur‟ānic worldview. According to this theory of analysis, each language contains a peculiar weltanschauung which causes its speakers to view the world in a way different from the speakers of other languages. Thus by analytic study of the conceptual key-terms of a given language, it is possible to grasp the weltanschauung of the people who use that language as a tool of conceptualizing and interpreting the world in which they live. He employs this semantic theory to examine how the Qur‟ānic key-terms and its particular linguistic categorization of nonlinguistic reality represent subjectively its weltanschauung and its vision of reality. Such semantic approach to the Qur‟ān indicates that its Arabic language is internally coherent, a self-sufficient system of words into which all words have been integrated with an entirely new systemic interpretation; yet it is culturally and historically conditioned, from Jāhilī (pre-Islamic) period to Qur‟ānic era, and thus it is a subjective elaboration of reality. The focus of the present study is to examine critically from ethical and theological perspectives the semantic method Izutsu applies to the Qur‟ānic key-concepts in his two works, God and Man in the Qur’an and Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Qur’an.
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title	The linguistic construction of reality: Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic hermeneutics of the Qur’ānic Weltanschauung
title_short	The linguistic construction of reality: Toshihiko Izutsu’s semantic hermeneutics of the Qur’ānic Weltanschauung
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