The Relation between the Language of the Qur’an and Science (A Comparative Approach to the Features of the Language of the Qur’an and Science and Their Important Differences)

Abstract

: The true interdisciplinary study needs knowledge and mastery in three levels of epistemological, methodological and linguistic requisites� The linguistic level is one of the most important fundamental levels in science, which needs to be considered in interdisciplinary communication� Two major approaches about the language of the Qur’an are considered by researchers till now: philosophic-hermeneutics and textual� Muslim researchers are interested in the former approach and orientalists frequently incline to the latter� Although the relation between the language of the Qur’an and the language of science with text-oriented approach is less frequently taken into account� Considering the foresaid approach in this article, the author studies the differences between the language of the Qur’an and the language of science and classifies them into five categories: 1� The use of ambiguity and linguistic amphibology; 2� The use of analogy, metaphor and metonymy; 3� Holism and polysemy; 4� The application of the language of sermon and dialogue; 5� The application of verbal complexity� The use of these five linguistic features of the Qur’an is to a large extent different from their use in science� It thus causes complexity in the relation between the Qur’an and humanism on the one hand and experimental sciences on the other�