Quran, Culture And Civilization

Quran, Culture And Civilization

Culture and Culture-Making Behaviors in the Holy Quran

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PhD student, Quran and Hadith Sciences, Islamic Azad University, North Tehran branch
Abstract
Paying attention to the concept of culture from the perspective of the Holy Qur'an in different dimensions can reveal the proper lifestyle to man and familiarizes him with the teachings of the Qur'an in this issue. Considering the two-faceted nature of the concept of culture, it is not easy to find equivalent keywords and terms related to it in the Holy Quran. The purpose of writing this article is to find the equivalents of the word culture, as well as terms that can make culture in the Qur'an. The present article is theoretical research in the field of Quranic culture, and with the exploratory analytical method, it follows the equivalent of the word culture and finding culture-making terms in the Quran. In this regard, general terms like "Sunnah", "Ummah", "Millah", "Din" and "Da'ab" are extracted from the Qur'an as equivalents of the word "culture" and while referring to the Emotional culture-making terms in the Quran, the Quranic words related to the behavioral culture-making words are discovered and expressed. Paying attention to these Quranic terms and their concepts can develop human ethics and behavioral culture based on Quranic teachings.

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Culture and Culture-Making Behaviors in the Holy Quran
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Volume 4, Issue 2 - Serial Number 12
Summer 2023
Pages 104-127

  • Receive Date 25 March 2023
  • Revise Date 31 May 2023
  • Accept Date 29 July 2023
  • Publish Date 23 August 2023