The Examination of the Intertextual Relationship Between the Testaments and the Simāt Prayer

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1 Master’s Holder in the Qur’ān and Ḥadīth Sciences, University of the Noble Qur’ān Sciences and Knowledge, Zahedan, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of the Qur’ān and Ḥadīth Sciences, Faculty of Theology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of the Qur’ān and Ḥadīth Sciences, Faculty of Theology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

Abstract

The major premise of intertextuality maintains that there exists no independent text, but rather, texts borrow from and have a close, mutual relationship with each other. According to this concept, any text is derived from the past or concurrent texts, in a way that the new (present) text is a summary of another text or various other texts (which are not present). The purpose of this article is to explore the intertextual presence of the Testaments in the Simāt prayer. The study is descriptive-survey in terms of method and uses library research method to collect data. The findings indicate that the Testaments (the Bible) have an intertextual presence of in the Simāt prayer. This relationship revolves around expressing common concepts and themes; therefore, there exist statements in the Simāt prayer that are similar to some statements in the Testaments. The most frequent intertextual commonality regards Ijtirār (partial rejection) in which the absent text (i.e., the Testaments) is represented in the present text (i.e., Simāt prayer). Moreover, there are some instances of Imtiṣāṣ (negation of the parallel), too.

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Classical and Contemporary Islamic Studies (formerly known as Journal of Contemporary Islamic Studies)
Volume 3, Issue 1
Winter & Spring
January 2021
Pages 69-83

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