Intra-surah Jinās; Case Studies of Surshs “al-Dhāriyāt”, “al-Ṫūr”, “al-Najm”, “al-Qamar”, and “al-Raḥmān”,

Document Type : Research Article

Author

hassan kharaghani

Professor, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2026.97658.1946

Abstract

The Quranic vocabulary exhibits phonetic cohesion externally and semantic coherence internally. Paronomasia (Jinās) is a literary device that contributes to this structural homogeneity. The previous studies have mainly addressed Jinās at the level of the hemistich, poetic line, within a prose clause, and between adjacent ones. Still, this article aims to analyze Jinās on a broader scale, that is, “in the context of the surah” and beyond adjacent verses. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this paper examines five surahs, namely “al-Dhāriyāt”, “al-Ṫūr”, “al-Najm”, “al-Qamar”, and “al-Raḥmān”, as samples. According to the results, these surahs, in addition to repetition, contain all kinds of Jinās at the whole surah level, indicating the Quran's attention to lexical uniformity within a surah’s structure. Also, the functions and aesthetic dimensions of these intra-surah Jināses can be classified into two categories: 1) Semantic functions, including text cohesion, creating contrast and correspondence between different sections of the surah, and returning to the semantic spaces outlined in the text. 2) Aesthetic functions, including the creation of order, proportion at the surah level, and phonetic music, repetition, and playing with the mind.

Keywords

Intra-surah Jinās

Textual Jinās

al-Dhāriyāt

al-Ṫūr

al-Najm

al-Qamar

al-Raḥmān

Subjects

• Stylistics of the Qurʾan

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