نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
The present article adopts a hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach to examine the role of Qur’anic metaphors of resistance and peace in shaping and reconstructing moral imagination. The article maintains that the Qur’an is not merely a collection of jurisprudential rulings or theoretical propositions; rather, it contains an extensive network of metaphors and images that creates a particular semantic world and, through this, directs the horizons of the audience’s moral perception, evaluation, and action. Drawing simultaneously upon the Islamic rhetorical tradition (especially ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī), classical Qur’anic exegeses (al-Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Fakhr al-Rāzī, and al-Ṭabarī), and contemporary theories in the philosophy of language and ethics (Lakoff and Johnson, Ricoeur, Izutsu), four key metaphors of resistance (“the path of God,” “trade,” “a compact structure,” and “trial”) and four metaphors of peace (“brotherhood,” “reconciliation,” “community/ummah,” and “mercy”) have been analyzed. The results demonstrate that these metaphors, on the one hand, portray resistance as a directed path, an existential trade, collective solidarity, and a test for the formation of moral character, and on the other hand, depict peace as fraternal bonding, the repair of relationships, unity in diversity, and the horizon of divine mercy. The central claim is that resistance and peace in the semantic world of the Qur’an are not two opposing poles, but two complementary dimensions of a single ethical process: resistance in upholding justice and human dignity, and peace in the reconstruction of human relations on the basis of mercy and brotherhood. This study has sought to highlight the Qur’an’s capacity for articulating a theology of meaningful resistance and just peace in the contemporary world.
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