INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA COURSE OUTLINE (translation) Kulliyyah Department Programme Course Title Course Code Status Level Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Qur Én and Sunnah Studies Bachelor of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage in Qur Én and Sunnah Studies Al-KhitÉb al-qur Éni: Qur anic Discourse RKQS 4121A Core Course Undergraduate Credit Hours 3 Contact Hours 3 Pre-requisites (if any) Co-requisites (if any) RKQS 2010A: ÑUlËm al-qur Én Nil Instructional Strategies Instructor(s) Lecturer centered learning Content-based teaching Classroom discussion To be determined Student centered learning Book Review Semester Offered Course Synopsis Semesters I & II This course deals with the discourse as available in the Qur Én, its significance in understanding the message of the Qur Én, its specific features, and its various techniques. In addition to these issues related to the discourse of the Qur Én, this course will also include the discussion on the views of scholars about how to benefit from the Qur Énic principles of discourse in one s interaction and dialogue with the different categories of the people. 1
Course Objectives Learning Outcomes This course aims: 1. To acquaint the students with the unique features of the Qur Énic discourse in its various styles, and its specific purposes. 2. To educate them about various methods of Qur Énic discourse, its rhetoric and semantics. 3. To equip them with the understanding of how to correctly interact with the Qur Énic discourse. Upon completion of this course the student will be able to: 1. Analyze the meaning, purpose, categories, and specific features of Qur Énic Discourse and its impact on the Muslim life and SharÊÑah transactions (C5,CS3) 2. Apply various styles of Qur Énic Discourses in interpreting Qur anic verses (A4) 3. Observe the different styles of the Qur Énic discourse in dialogue with people of other religious and cultural affiliations. (P3, LL2) Course Assessment Method % Course-Work 50 Final Examination 50 Total 100 Content Outlines Weeks Topics Task/Reading 1 Preliminary Issues Discourse: Definition Literal and Technical, Its Usage in the Qur Én, and Its Significance in Qur anic Studies. Manner of Interaction with the Qur anic discourse: Scholars Efforts, and their Benefiting from this 2 Constituents of the Qur anic discourse: 1. General Features of Qur anic Discourse 2. General as well as Specific Objectives of Qur anic Discourse Basic Elements of the Qur anic discourse and its categories. Styles and forms of the Qur anic discourse. Unique Features of Qur anic discourse 3 3. Six Components of Qur anic Discourse (The Addressor, Background of Address, Means of Address, the Content of Address, Context of Reception, the Addressee) 4 Addressees in the Qur Én: 1- Their Types Al-AÏrash: pp. 10-35 Sofia: pp. 13-37 Abd al- RaÍmÉn: pp. 9-13 Al-AÏrash: pp. 18; 42-45 RashÊ RiÌÉ: pp. 168-340 DarrÉz: p. 30 Abd al-raímén: pp. 15-22 Sofia: pp. 411-415 2
2- Examples of Addressees in the Qur Én a) Address to the Prophets (pbut) 5 b) Qur anic Address to the Last Prophet (s.a.w.) Al-AÏrash: pp. 185-211 Muhammad: pp. 3-85 6 c) Qur anic Address to the Believers Al-AÏrash: pp. 246-254 7 d) Qur anic Address to the Mankind Al-Atrash: pp. 226-245 8 e) Qur anic Discourse with the Non-Believers f) Qur anic Discourse with the People of Scriptures g) Qur anic Discourse with the Hypocrites h) Qur anic Discourse with Jinn Al-Atrash: pp. 86-115 9 Styles and Forms of Qur anic Discourse according to Linguists, Rhetoricians, Legal Theorists, and Exegetes: General Discourse Aimed at the Humanity in General. Particular Discourse Meant for Specific Targets. Specific Discourse in the sense of General Application. General Discourse with its Applicability to only Specific people 217-226 Sofia: pp. 73; 89; 126-170 10 Generic, Specific, and Personal Addressing. Complimentary Addressing. Disparaging and Respectful Addressing. Humiliation and Sarcastic Addressing. 11 Addressing One through the Words in Plural Addressing Individual and Group of Individuals with the Word Denoting Dual Number. Addressing Many After One 2/226-240 2/226; 2/240; 2/243-251 3
Personal Address to Some Particular Person Aimed at Someone Else. Address to Specific Person Leading to Someone Other Than Him. Address to Inanimate Beings As That to Animate Beings. Provocative Address 12 Irritating Address. Motivational Address. Repulsive Address. Regretful Address. Address of Refutation 13 Address to Two Persons with the Word in Plural Address to Only One after Using the Word in Plural Al-SuyËÏÊ: pp. 2/744-752 Sofia: pp: 286-296 Al-SuyËÏÊ: p. 2/747 14 Address to Two after Using the Word in Singular Application of the Third Person in the Address but the Target is the Second or A Particular Person. Affectionate, Honorable, Incapacitating Address References Al-SuyËÏÊ: pp. 2/744-752 Sofia: pp. 282-306 Required Al-AÏrash, Radwan Jamal (2005), DirÉsah TaÍlÊlÊyyah fi al-khiïéb al- Qur ÉnÊ, Kuala Lumpur: DÉr al-tajdêd. Sofia Samsuddin (2003), KhiÏÉb al-qur Én: DirÉsah MuqÉranah TaÍlÊlÊyyah Bayn al-zarkashê wa al-suyëïê, Ph. D. Thesis, UKM. Al-ZarkashÊ, Badr al-dên (1972), Al-BurhÉn fê UlËm al-qur Én, Edited by Muhammad Abu al-faìl, Beirut: Al-Maktabah al- AîrÊyyah. Al-SuyËÏÊ, JalÉl al-dên (n.d.), Al-ItqÉn fê UlËm al-qur Én, n. p. Muhammad Abd al-øamad Abd Allah, KhiÏÉb al-anbiyé (n.d.), Maktabah al-zuhré. Muhammad RashÊ RaÌÉ (1985), Al-WaÍy al-muhammadê (10 th ed), Beirut: Al- Maktab al-islémê. DarrÉz, Abd Allah (n.d.), Al-Naba al- AÐÊm, Kuwait: DÉr al-qalam. Abd al-raímén al- Éjj, Al-KhiÏÉb al-qur ÉnÊ: Madkhal ilé TaÍlÊl al-khiïéb (Manuscript to be published shortly). Recommended DarÉz, ØabÉÍ Ubayd (1986), Al-AsÉlÊb al-inshé Êyyah wa AsrÉruhÉ al- BalÉghÊyyah fi al-qur Én al-karêm, ShibrÉ: MaÏbaÑah al-aménah. IlÉhÊ, FaÌl (1996), MurÉÑÉt AÍwÉl al-mukhéïabên fê Öaw i al-kitéb wa al- Sunnah wa Siyar al-øéliíên, Pakistan: IdÉrÉ TarjumÉn al-islam. ÑAbbÉs FaÌl asan (1992), Al-BalÉghah: FunËnuhÉ wa AfnÉnuhÉ Ilm al- MaÑÉnÊ (3 rd edn.), Oman: DÉr al-furqén. LÉshÊn Abd al-fattéí (1998), Al-BayÉn fê Öaw i AsÉlÊb al-qur Én, Cairo: DÉr 4
al-fikr al- ArabÊ. Al-BÉqillÉnÊ, AbË Bakr (1988), I jéz al-qur Én, Beirut: Ólam al-kutub. Al-GhazÉlÊ, AbË Émid, Muhammad ibn Muhammad (1992), JawÉhir al- Qur Én, Beirut: DÉr al-fikr al-lubnénê. Muhammad ÙÉhir (1328 AH), SamÏ al-durar fê RabÏ al-óyét wa al-suwar wa KhulÉÎatuhÉ al-mukhtaîar, Pakistan: Al-Maktabah al-yaméniyah. Proposed Start Date (Semester) Batch of Students to be Affected Semester 1, 2011/2012 onwards Semester 1, 2011/2012 intake onwards Prepared by: Checked by: Approved by: Coordinator Head, Dept of Dean, KIRKHS Curriculum Committee Qur an and Sunnah Studies 5