Balancing study of Argumentation in Quranic interpretation Corpus of Fakhr al-Raazi (D.606 AH(and Sadr al-Muta allihin (D. 1050 AH(

Abstract

Argumentation is a technique utilizes by the speaker to persuade the audience or to rebut his or her opponent’s proposed claims. The arguer thus, uses argumentations tool kit or elements to support the legitimacy of his or her views to affirm and enhance his or her position. In interpreting Qur`anic verses, the interpreter draws on all possible argumentative techniques to express the precision of or the soundness of the interpretive methods he or she follows. Al-Razi`s Mafatih al Ghayb and Mulla Sadra`s Tafsir al Quran Al-karm, in interpreting the Quranic texts, they adopted their intellectual frameworks. Both of the interpreters follow the rational philosophical school of interpretation; thus, they utilize wide-ranging of elaboration, categorization and various other techniques chiefly deduction and induction to empower their views.

Linguistically speaking, linguistic argumentation is considered one of the most important sorts of argumentation an exegete might adopt. Since the Quranic verses are miraculous in their eloquence, stylistic excellence, and rhetoric, the interpreters find it essential to employ these types of argumentations in their exegetical discourse. Metaphor is one of the most prominent rhetorical devices that employed by the two interpreters which is a key component of rhetoric in Arabic. It is also a tool of compassion whereby one element is obviously mentioned and the other is intended. In Quranic verses metaphor appears more often, therefore the interpreters draw on it frequently in their argumentative interpretation. Each interpreter approaches this feature variously, drawing upon it a way algins with his theological and intellectual methodology. As a result, the argumentative style of each appears clearly reflected in his exegetical treatment.