İslâmî Kaynaklar Açısından Peygamberlerin Konuştuğu Diller

• Published in: Cumhuriyet ilahiyat dergisi 2021-06, Vol.25 (1), p.385-407
• Main Author: Yaqoob, Luay Hatem
• Format: Article
• Language: eng ; tur
• Subjects: Akkadian language; Ancient Egyptian; Arab people; Arabic language; arabic language and rhetoric; Arabic literature; Aramaic language; arap dili ve belagatı; Archaeology; Areal linguistics; Calligraphy; dil coğrafyası; dilbilim; dillerin tarihi; Edebiyat; Egyptian Coptic; Felsefe & Psikoloji & Sosyoloji; Hebrew language; history of languages; Language studies; Languages; languages spoken by the prophets; linguistic geography; Linguistics; Native language; peygamberlerin konuştuğu diller; Regional dialects; Religious literature; Rhetoric; Sami languages; Semitic languages; sâmî dilleri; Theology and Religion; Topics
• ISSN: 2528-9861; 2528-987X
• DOI: 10.18505/cuid.886845

The topic of The Prophets' Languages has led to a broad interest due to the sacred status of the Prophets. It has been of interest to people of all religious and social orientations. Despite the complexity of this topic and the necessity of studying it from various aspects such as archaeology and the study of ancient calligraphy, we limited our study to Islamic sources and references only. We extrapolated what was mentioned in these books. Other than the Holy Qur’ān, it will be concerned with books of interpretation, history, biography, hadith, its explanations, language books, etc. This study has been divided into three main points, an introduction, and a conclusion. The first point dealt with the origin of the languages spoken by the Prophets (peace be upon them) and their proximity to each other: Syriac, Coptic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic. All of these languages belong to the Semitic language. In terms of their convergence and similarity with each other, some linguists considered it dialects of one language, the Semitic language of origin. It has branched out from it as a result of the expansion, development, and development of life. Looking at today, the dialects of the Arabs in Egypt, Morocco, Jazira, the Levant, and Iraq, each branched out and most of it emerged from the mother tongue Arabic. There is a discussion among researchers on which of the languages are closer to the Semitic language. Four languages are listed as possibilities: Hebrew, Babylonian, Assyrian, Syriac, and Arabic. The truth is that it is not easy to get to know the origin of the Semitic language, and everything that has been said is not outside the circle of speculation because of the loss of definitive evidence and the temporal dimension. As for the second point, this study investigated the linguistic geography that the Semitic language covered and spread in, by tracking the people who spoke the Semitic language, their places of residence, and their influence, as all of them settled in the Near East and its vicinity. If we look at the Semitic language, with its eastern and western branches, we see that it was concentrated in Babylon, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Arabia, Yemen, the Levant, and Jerusalem regions, and among the most famous tribes and nations that settled in this region are Saba, Himyar, Ad, Thamud, Jirhm, Samaria, Nabat, the people of Palmyra and others. Mostly likely, the Arabian Peninsula is the cradle of the Semitic people, although some say that Abyssinia was the cra