نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
مدیر سامانه
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
The concept of “civilization” is one of the fundamental notions in contemporary social studies; however, neither this term nor its direct equivalents appear explicitly in the Qur’an. Therefore, the central question of this study is whether the Qur’anic idea of civilization can be derived through an analysis of its social vocabulary, and which of these terms possesses the greatest capacity to represent such an idea. Adopting a descriptive–analytical approach grounded in intratextual semantic analysis, this research examines five key Qur’anic terms: ummah (community), qawm (people), qaryah (settlement), madīnah (city), and mulk (sovereignty). In the first stage, the lexical and etymological meanings of each term were extracted from authoritative Arabic sources. Subsequently, through a contextual analysis of all Qur’anic occurrences, their applied meanings and semantic domains were identified. The study then evaluates the relationship between these concepts and the analytical components of civilization, including the belief system, social organization, political structure and governance, and the material–urban context. The findings indicate that although ummah, qawm, qaryah, and madīnah each signify certain aspects of collective life, none of them independently conveys the full Qur’anic idea of civilization. In contrast, the term mulk, due to its connotations of sovereignty, authority, and the administration of social affairs, demonstrates greater conceptual comprehensiveness and can serve as a more suitable lens for understanding divine civilization in the Qur’an. Accordingly, Qur’anic civilization may be conceptualized through the notion of mulk as a system of monotheistic governance of collective human life.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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