Critical Analyzing the Epistemological Base of the View of "the Mysterious Language of the Quran" with an emphasis on Surūsh and Mujtaḥid Shabistarī's Viewpoints

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Mahdi Mahdavi Aela ¹
• Alireza Khatam Shishebor ²
• Aliahmad Naseh ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Shiraz University of Technology, Shiraz, Iran

² , Level Three Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Kalam, Seminary of Qom, Qom, Iran

³ Professor, Department of Quran and Hadith, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2024.84151.1602

Abstract

In validating a view, it is important to reread its intellectual bases. Clarifying the epistemological foundation, as well as analyzing and criticizing its various dimensions, plays an effective role in studying the language of the Quran. Affected by examining the epistemology theory, ascribing the mysteriousness to the language of the Quran becomes doubtful and the underlying epistemic and cognitive bases of the Quran strengthen toward the comprehensibility and certainty of the Quran's language. After a critical analysis of the aforesaid foundation by using exact rational considerations, the weakness of the view of the mysterious language of the Quran has been highlighted in this writing. The method of this paper is documentary-analytical. The findings show that the epistemological basis of the view of "the mysterious language of the Quran" encounters ssistant Professor, serious challenges as follows: 1- concerning the typology of skepticism, it is complex, 2- regarding genealogically, it is a neo-Kantian view, 3- methodologically, it is considered as an approach that is far from any criteria, 4- self-contradiction is its essential feature, 5- its defenses are defective. So, the basis of the view of "the mysterious language of the Quran" is corrupted and rejected.

Keywords

• Epistemological foundation
• Neo-Kantians
• Skepticism
• Relativity
• Mysteriousness
• Quran's language

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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