[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-detail-40027-en":3,"doc-seo-40027-105":30,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":91},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"success",{"doc_id":7,"user_id":8,"nickname":9,"user_avatar":10,"doc_module":4,"category_id":11,"category_name":12,"doc_title":13,"doc_description":14,"doc_content":15,"file_id":16,"file_url":17,"file_type":18,"file_size":19,"view_count":20,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":21,"is_downloadable":21,"audit_status":21,"page_count":22,"language":23,"language_code":24,"site_id":25,"html_lang":24,"table_of_contents":26,"faqs":27,"seo_title":13,"seo_description":14,"update_tm":28,"read_time":29},40027,1374391975076,"Riley","https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/14000253ca4ec9f6853?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1783305029341752051",9,"Religion & Spirituality","God and Man in the Qur'an Semantics of the Qur'anic","A scholarly study of the Qur’an that explains how meaning in its key terms forms a coherent world-view (weltanschauung). The work develops a semantic method for analyzing Qur’anic vocabulary through both basic and relational meanings, in synchronic and diachronic perspectives. It traces major themes such as God and man, the unseen and visible, divine communication (signs, guidance, worship), revelation and prayer, and the ethical and eschatological relations that structure Qur’anic belief.","TOSHIHIKO IZUTSU  \nTOSHIHIK IZUTSU  \nKeio University 1964ISBN 9789839154382  \nFirst published 1964Keio University,Minatoku,Tokyo,Japan  \nThis new edition 2002First reprint 2004Second reprint 2008  \nPublished byIslamic Book Trust607 Mutiara MajesticJalan Othman46000 Petaling JayaMalaysiaWebsite:www.ibtbooks.com  \nIslamic Book Trust is affiliated to The Other Press.  \nCover designHabibur Rahman Jalaluddin  \nPrinted by  \nAcademe Art&Printing ServicesKuala Lumpur  \nContents  \nReview by Fazlur RahmanPreface  \n11411  \n1.Semantics and the Qur'an  \nI.Semantics of the Qur'an  \nII.Integration of Individual ConceptsIII.'Basic'Meaning and 'Relational Meanings'  \n2.Qur'anic Key-Terms in History32  \nI.Synchronic and Diachronic Semantics32II.The Qur'an and the Post-Qur'anic Systems42  \n3.The Basic Structure of Qur'anic Weltanschauung  \n74  \nI.Preliminary Remark74II.God and Man76II.The Muslim Community79IV.The Unseen and the Visible83V.The Present World and the Hereafter86VI.Eschatological Concepts91  \n4.Allah  \n100  \nI.The Word Allah,Its ‘Basic'and 'Relational'Meanings100II.The Concept of Allah in Arabian Paganism106II.The Jews and the Christians111IV.The Judeo-Christian Concept of Allah in theHands of the Pagan Arabs115V.Allah of the Hanifs117  \n5.Ontological Relation Between God and Man127  \nI.The Concept of Creation127II.Human Destiny130  \n6.Communicative Relation Between God and Man:Non-linguistic Communication142  \nI.The 'Signs'of God142II.Divine Guidance150HI.The Worship as a Means of Communication158  \n# 7.Communicative Relation Between God and Man:Linguistic Communication163\n\nI.God's Speech(Kalam Allah)163II.The Original Meaning of the Word Wahy169III.The Semantical Structure of Revelation178IV.Revelation in Arabic199V.Prayer(Al-Du'ā)208  \n# 8.Jahiliyyah and Islam216\n\nI.Islam and the Concept of Humble Submission216II.From Hilm to Islam235III.The Conception of Religion (Din)as 'Obedience'239  \n# 9.Ethical Relation Between God and Man\n\n254  \nI.God of MercyII.God of WrathIII.Wa'd and Wa'id  \n254  \n258  \n265  \nReferences  \n271  \nIndex  \n275  \nReview by Fazlur Rahman*  \nThis book,which constitutes volume V of the series Studies in theHumanities and Social Relations of Keio University is written byProfessor Toshihiko Izutsu and has emerged out of his lectures atMcGill University,Montreal in the spring of 1962 and 1963.Actually,I participated in a seminar given by Dr.Izutsu at McGillduring the 1960-61 session where he had tried out some of the ideascontained in this book.These seem to have matured over the yearsand this constitutes not only a welcome addition to the existingliterature on Islam but introduces a new approach to the under-standing of Islam—particularly by non-Muslims—the linguisticapproach.The Arabic mistakes that appear in the book(some ofwhich must be sheer misprints which are also frequent in the book)must not lead the reader to accuse the writer of inadequacy in Arabicwhich he knows and speaks fluently.Nor is this Dr.Izutsu's firstwork on the Qur'an,he has already given us a work on the ethicalconcepts of the Holy Book.  \nAt the outset,Dr.Izutsu gives us his idea of the sciencc oflinguistics or semantics through which he wishes to understand theQur'an,\"Semantics as I understand it is an analytic study of thc key-terms of a language with a view to arriving eventually at a conceptual  \nGOD AND MAN IN THE QUR'AN  \ngrasp of the weltanschauung or world-view of the people who usethat language...”.  \nA semantical study of the Qur'an would,therefore,be an analy-tical study of the key-terms of the Qur'an.In the succeeding pages,Dr.Izutsu makes it abundantly clear that by a study of the key-termsis not merely meant just a mechanical analysis of these terms orconcepts in isolation or as static units but even more importantlyincludes their living,contextual import,as they are used in theQur'an.Thus,although the term Allah was used by some pre-IslamicArabs not only to mean a deity among deities but even a supremedeity in hierarchy of d","cbCaiitC5u6OTW4s","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiitC5u6OTW4s","pdf",16712011,2,1,308,"English","en",105,"# Review by Fazlur Rahman\n# Preface\n# Semantics and the Qur'an\n## Semantics of the Qur'an\n## Integration of Individual Concepts\n## 'Basic' Meaning and 'Relational Meanings'\n# Qur'anic Key-Terms in History\n## Synchronic and Diachronic Semantics\n## The Qur'an and the Post-Qur'anic Systems\n# The Basic Structure of Qur'anic Weltanschauung\n## God and Man\n## The Muslim Community\n## The Unseen and the Visible\n## The Present World and the Hereafter\n## Eschatological Concepts\n# Allah\n## The Word Allah, 'Basic' and 'Relational' Meanings\n# Ontological Relation Between God and Man\n# Communicative Relation Between God and Man\n## Non-linguistic Communication\n## Linguistic Communication\n# Jahiliyyah and Islam\n# Ethical Relation Between God and Man\n# References\n# Index","[{\"question\":\"What semantic approach does the book use to understand the Qur'an?\",\"answer\":\"It treats Qur’anic semantics as an analytic study of key terms aimed at grasping the Qur’an’s world-view, emphasizing contextual and living meanings rather than isolated mechanical analysis.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the book explain the shift in meaning of the word 'Allah'?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that pre-Islamic usage could describe a deity or hierarchy, while the Qur’an changes the term’s contextual import by removing other deities and placing the concept of Allah at the center.\"},{\"question\":\"What topics are covered under the relationship between God and man?\",\"answer\":\"The book addresses both ontological relation (creation and human destiny) and communicative relation, 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