المصطلح في علوم القرآن بين الكافيجي و السيوطي : دراسة مقارنة

الملخص EN

This study tackles the intricate issue of the Qur'anic terminology in general and its prominence in the Islamic culture and in the Qur'anic sciences in particular.

It underscores the undeniable significance of the Qur'anic terminology both as the authority that sets the broad parameters of the Qur'anic science and as the measure that calibrates and distinguishes its specificities.

The Qur'anic terminology therefore is seen as the guard against any misunderstanding or confusion that might occur in the Sharia jurisdictions.

The researcher has chosen Al-Kafiji and Al-Sayouti's Qur'anic sciences to study the features of their Qur'anic terminology.

This is because, first, Al-Kafiji and Al-Sayouti were relatively later scholars who fully assimilated the terminological expertise of their predecessors and had significantly added to it; and, second, because the latter was one of the most distinguished students of the former and was thus supposed to have been influenced by him.

The study approaches this problematic point with some degree of explicitness.

The paper is divided into three parts: The first assesses the roles of, and the most important contributions and efforts made by, Al-Kafiji and Al-Sayouti in the Qur'anic sciences, and it does so by tracing the contributions and the efforts made by their predecessors in this field.

The second concerns itself primarily with Al-Kafiji's terminology of the Qur'anic sciences, and it establishes that he was the first scholar to have studied the Qur'anic terminology as an independent branch of the Qur'anic sciences.

In his book, Al-Tayseer fi Kawaed Ilm Al-Tafseer, Al-Kafiji allocates a whole section to the study of the Qur'anic terminology, and the present paper examines his terminological methodology, its sources and its salient features.

It also posits some reservations against it.

The third sections studies Al-Sayouti's terminology of the Qur'anic sciences, its sources and his additions to these sources.

It pays special attention to the considerable influence exerted by his sheikh and mentor, Al-Kafiji, in this respect.

Hopefully, the study unravels the intricacies of this problematic influence and removes some of the latent misunderstandings surrounding it.