Quran and Hadith Studies‎

Studying the Dialogue Ooriented Structure of the Qur'anic Story of Solomon (PBUH) and the Queen of Sheba based on Mikhail Bakhtin's Theory of Conversational Logic

Document Type : Research Article

Author

Teacher of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.

Abstract

Quran Karim and its stories, are like a full-view mirror of living and historical facts, always with its linguistic and rhetorical miracles as well as its instructive, objective and concrete content as a guide and standard of action, generation after generation for people containing high and deep moral, human and social meanings And they are mystical And also, with argumentative and warning discourses, they provide the audience with a better understanding of religion and the application of its practical strategies in drawing the moral-human path of daily life. Using the linguistic approaches of modern theories such as Bakhtin's "conversational logic" in the analysis of the narrative texts of the Holy Quran from the perspective of humanities and social sciences, leads to the discovery of innovative angles and dimensions of such writings. One of the prominent examples of these stories, which is told in verses 20 to 44 of Surah Mubaraka Naml, is the story of Hazrat Suleiman and the Queen of Sheba, which first began with his conversation with Hudhud about the events of the land of Sheba and then followed by writing letters, meeting and talking with Balqis; The queen of that land arrives. This story is told on a page of history; But at the same time, it has a deep connection with linguistic, sociological concepts, as well as high religious and mystical teachings. The above mentioned story is based on dialogue-oriented logic as well as value, moral and instructive principles, and its characters, while interacting and conversing with their audience, explain their positions through rational arguments and arguments, and sometimes with warning and threats And it is this feature of polyphony and conversation that determines the necessity of examining the said story based on Bakhtin's "conversational logic" theory. In this regard, the present research tries to investigate the components and structure of the mentioned story based on the frequent components of the mentioned theory with analytical-descriptive method and library study, and explain the application and the degree of influence of each of them. The findings indicate that the story of Hazrat Suleiman and the Queen of Sheba is one of the characteristics of the four basic components of conversational logic; That is, two-way speech or intertextuality on both linguistic and content levels, question phrases as provocative tools, grammatical tools, as well as the two concepts of Tay Al-Arth and tarfat al-ain as chronotope (al-zamkanah) have.

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Quran and Hadith Studies‎
Volume 18, Issue 1 - Serial Number 35
Autumn 2024 & Winter 2025
September 2024
Pages 280-255