Quran and Hadith Studies‎

Extracting the Dialogue Pattern of the Prophets in the Holy Quran

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 MSc. Student of Quranic sciences, Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Corresponding Author, Assistant professor, Interdisciplinary Quranic Studies Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

3 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering and Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30497/qhs.2024.245775.3906

Abstract

Considering the role of constructive dialogue in improving human relations on the one hand and the role of prophets in religious attitudes on the other hand, the purpose of this research is to extract the pattern of human dialogues of prophets in the Holy Quran. For this purpose, for the methodical study and analysis of the dialogue verses of the prophets, association rules are used, which is one of the methods and algorithms in the science of computational data mining. Using this algorithm, it is possible to analyze the conditions governing the dialogue based on the way the features of the dialogue come together. In this research, first, a data set of human dialogues of prophets and effective criteria and characteristics in each of the dialogues was prepared. This dataset has been made available on the website of Shahid Beheshti University. Then, by analyzing the data with the method of associational rules, the dialogue pattern of the prophets was extracted. The findings of the research show that, in total, the Holy Quran has 591 verses dedicated to the human dialogue of the prophets, which can be divided into 160 separate dialogues. By determining the influential features in a dialogue and extracting these features for all the human dialogues of the prophets, the pattern of the dialogue of the prophets was presented by 15 rules. For example, one of the rules is as follows: if the prophets are the initiators of the dialogue in the first party and the topic of discussion is religious, then with a 58% certainty, the dialogue method of the prophets is interrogative, and with a 55% certainty, the dialogue is long. Also, with a 90% certainty, the speaker's condition is in the original form. Also, it was found that 73% of the verses of the human dialogue of the prophets are located in the Maccian surahs and most of these verses have emphasis.

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Quran and Hadith Studies‎
Volume 18, Issue 1 - Serial Number 35
Autumn 2024 & Winter 2025
September 2024
Pages 135-164