KURAN'DA YABANCI KELİMELER MESELESİNE ORYANTALİST BİR YAKLAŞIM

Bilal Gökkır

Research Article

ARTHUR JEFFERY AND THE FOREIGN VOCABULARY OF THE QUR’AN

Year 2002, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 135 - 142, 31.12.2002

Bilal Gökkır

Abstract

Arthur Jeffery (1893-1959), an Anglo-Saxon orientalist, was trained as a
Methodist priest and worked for Christian mission all his life. The Foreign Vocabulary
of The Qur’an, was his PhD thesis submitted to the University of Edinburgh
(1929) and later published in 1938 (Baroda). In his book, Jeffery listed 325 words
of the Qur’an as foreign. The most influential foreign language on the Qur’anic vocabulary,
for him , was Aramaic-Syriac, the language of Christian religious literature
at the time of the Prophet and, he claims, of the Jews of Madina. He seemed to
have approached the issue with some religious and linguistic presuppositions.