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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Abstract
Bu makalede özellikle son dönemde Kur’ân surelerini dönemlere göre tasnif eden
dört araştırmacı ve ilgili çalışmaları ele alınmıştır. Bu çalışmalarda Mekkî sureler; nüzul
rivayetleri, surelerin üslup ve içerikleri dikkate alınarak dönemlere ayrılmış, aynı
zamanda sureler, bu dönemlerde cereyan eden olaylarla da ilişkilendirilmiştir. Yine bu
makalede, ilgili çalışmalarda kullanılan yöntemler ve elde edilen sonuçlar üzerinde durulmuş,
ictihada dayalı bu türden tasnifl erde ortak sonuçlara ulaşılmasının imkânı sorgulanmıştır.
Ancak bu çalışma, herkes tarafından kabul edilebilecek bir sure tertibinin
mümkün olmayışı yanında, belki de bu imkânsızlığın bir sonucu olarak ortaya çıkan
dönemsel tasnif çalışmalarında da ortak bir sonuca ulaşılamayacağını göstermektedir.
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| Publication Date | June 20, 2016 |
| Published in Issue | Year 2016 Volume: 19 Issue: 48 (20-06-2016) |