The Nominal Forms in the Interpretation of Al-Shawkani (Fath Al-Qadir): A Study of their Semantic Morphological Transformations

Abstract

The research has been devoted to study the morphological transformation in the nominal forms of the Holy Qur’an in the interpretation of Al-Shawkani called Fath Al-Qadir Al-Jamie Bayn Fanay Arriwayah Waddirayah min 'Elm Al-Tafseer. Hence, the study found that all examples of the morphological transformation in the nominal forms included in the interpretation of Al-Shawkani fall into three types discussed in three sections. The first section, entitled Morphological Transformations in the Descriptive Derivatives, discusses four main transformations: the morphological transformations between the active participle (اسم الفاعل) and passive participle (اسم المفعول), the transformation of the form of the measure فعيل)) into the meaning of the form of the measure  فاعل)) or (مفعول), the transformation of the form of the measure أفعلَ)) into the meaning of the form of the measure فاعل)) or (فعيل), and the transformation of the form of the measure فَعُول)) into the meaning of the form of the measure مفعول)) or (فاعل).

The second section, entitled The Morphological Transformations between Underivable Nouns and Descriptive Derivatives, discusses two main transformations:   the transformation of underivable nouns into the meaning of descriptive derivatives, namely the active and passive participles, and the transformation of descriptive derivatives, the active and passive participles, into the meaning of underivable noun.

The third section, entitled Morphological Transformations in the Semantics of Numbers, discusses three main transformations: the transformation of the singular into the meaning of dual, the transformation of the singular into the meaning of plural, and the transformation of the plural into the meaning of dual.