علم البديع في مدونة علوم القرآن: من تحسين اللفظ إلى انسجام النص القرآني.

Abstract

Abstract: This research on the acts of worship in Al-Fatihah Chapter is extremely important in two vital fields of study in humanities, namely: the Quranic studies on the one hand, and pragmatics, particularly the speech acts theory, in the other. Our study is based on one of the most essential principle of the Language philosophy and Pragmatics theories alike, i.e., an utterance is an act at the same time. Our research problem is how are the acts of worship in Al-Fatihah Chapter embedded as pragmatic illocutionary acts? This study aims at demonstrating that the acts of worship in Al-Fatihah are not mere words but rather highly pragmatic acts, and are comprehensive qualitative acts as revealed in the results. Key words: acts of worship, speech acts, pragmatics, Al-Fatihah Chapter, Quranic studies.