The Dialectic Relation Between Jahiliyya Arabic Hajj Rituals and the Qur'anic Rituals

DİNDİ E.

CUMHURIYET ILAHIYAT DERGISI-CUMHURIYET THEOLOGY JOURNAL, vol.21, no.1, pp.577-638, 2017 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 21 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.18505/cuid.307993
  • Journal Name: CUMHURIYET ILAHIYAT DERGISI-CUMHURIYET THEOLOGY JOURNAL
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.577-638
  • Keywords: Jahiliyya, Hajj, Umrah, Rituals, Qur'an, Revelation-Reality
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No

Abstract

In this article, the purpose is to contribute to the methodology in understanding the Qur'an within its dynamic culture in its period by interpreting the Hajj ritual in the Qur'an with its being divine text-phenomenon and revelation- reality dialectics and by introducing pre-Islamic jahiliyya Arab and anthropological foundations of these rituals. The issue of whether the.ajj imagination and customaries mentioned in the Qur. an are "initial" and "invention", which are re-organized from the initial stage, is investigated in this study. Similarly, the issue of whether the Hajj is based on metaphysical bases i.e. to Abraham and Adam, and then, to Holy Spirit (the Angel Gabriel) by the majority of Islamic scholars in a purifying and glorifying, and apological manner being in agreement with the reality or not is also examined in the study. As a result of the method in which the data collection is made from classical