قواعد المد في القرآن الكريم في ضوء علم الأصوات الحديث

Abstract EN

This article attempts to study the rules of lengthening the vowels in the Holy Quran from the perspective of modern phonology discipline.

We presently live at a time when the views of the traditional scholars are no longer enough as we need to put the knowledge in a new framework.

In this paper the writer would like to propose new methods and new opinions regarding the rules of vowel lengthening (madd) in the Holy Quran in addition to the views and findings of the traditional scholars on this issue in order to come up with new perspectives that are more inclined to the reality of the development of the discipline today.

Some of the most important findings of this study are: the [± long] feature plays a significant role in transforming the alif into a fathah if it is with sukun (no vowel sign) and preceded with an open vowel; the features of [+the advancement of the beginning of the tongue] is important in transforming the recitation of the original madd into the middle madd if the hamzah is positioned after the vowels of the madd.

The feature of [+ oral deficiencies] plays a significant role with the feature of [+glottal contraction] and [+the advancement of the beginning of the tongue] during the transformation of the original and the liin (soft) madd in the Warash recitation into the middle madd if the hamzah is after the long vowels and the sounds from oral deficiencies.

The feature of [+ sukun] plays an important role in transforming the recitation with short vowel into the long madd with six harakat if the long harakah is before two similar and consecutive sukuns.