ABDULKAHİR EL-CÜRCNÃŽ'NİN NAZM TEORİSİ

Year 2006, Volume: 8 Issue: 13, 65 - 101, 15.06.2006

Kadir Kınar

Abstract

According to Abdulkahir el-Cürcanî Quran's inimitability depends on its (nazm) uniquediscourse arrangement . The Quranic discourse arrangement is means to take care ofsyntactic meanings between its words and phrases. The syntactic meanings that hemeans are difference from syntactic rules. They consist of application of necessitiessuch as separation and joining, preposing and postposing. According to him themeaning has a dominant role in evaluating speaking fairly and eloquency and correctnesof composition. He is one the supporters for descriptive literature critique. İn additionto the other literature criterions he put forward the syntactic meanings for evaluate thetext. He eliminated the views of preceded schoolers for inimitability of Quran anddecided that its inimitability depends on its unique composition. His book “ Dalaal aleajaz”“evidences of inimitability” constitutes the foundation of “ilm al-maani”“science of meanings” and the book “Asrar al-balağa” “secrets of eloquency”constitutes the foundation of “ ilm al-badi va'l-bayan” “science of adornment andexplanation”

Keywords

Nazm, Nahiv manaları, lafız, mana, i'câz

ABDULKAHEER AL-JURJAANI’S TH EORY OF NAZM (DISCOURSE ARRANGEMENT)

Abstract

According to Abdulkahir el-Cürcanî Quran's inimitability depends on its
(nazm) uniquediscourse arrangement . The Quranic discourse arrangement
is means to take care ofsyntactic meanings between its words and
phrases. The syntactic meanings that hemeans are difference from
syntactic rules. They consist of application of necessitiessuch as
separation and joining, preposing and postposing. According to him
themeaning has a dominant role in evaluating speaking fairly and
eloquency and correctnesof composition. He is one the supporters for
descriptive literature critique. İn additionto the other literature
criterions he put forward the syntactic meanings for evaluate thetext.
He eliminated the views of preceded schoolers for inimitability of Quran
anddecided that its inimitability depends on its unique composition.
His book “ Dalaal aleajaz”“evidences of inimitability” constitutes the
foundation of “ilm al-maani”“science of meanings” and the book “Asrar
al-balağa” “secrets of eloquency”constitutes the foundation of “ ilm
al-badi va'l-bayan” “science of adornment andexplanation”

Keywords

Discourse arrangement, Gr ammatical Meanings, Word Order Variations, İ nterrelationships between the words