KUR’AN’S LACONIC -I’CAZ- IN ELMALILI MUHAMMED HAMDI YAZIR’S COMMENTARY

Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır, one of the brightest personality who Ottoman madrassah had brought up, served as a professor of Beyazıd Medressai, member of Meclis-i Mebusân, negotiant in discourses, head of Dâru’l-Hikmeti’l-İslâmiyye, member of Ottoman senate, minister of foundation, head of branch of Comitte of Union and Progress. He was trialed being held responsible for his decision against the Turkish national struggle for independence during his post in Damat Ferit Paşa cabinet. He completed the task of writing a commentary of the Kuran in 1938, which he was given in 1926. The work that makes him who has eight work translation or original work, in total the top is the commentary of on the Quran named Hak Dini Kur’ân Dili. Even though he said that he used the references such as İrşâd of Ebüssuûd, Envârü’t-tenzîl’i of Beyzâvî, Keşşâf of Zemahşerî, Ahkâmü’l-Kur’ân of Cessâs, Tefsîr-i Kebîr and Tefsîr-i Nisâbûrî of Alûsî, his making a choice among the comments/evaluations that he cited, besides the ones he criticized that he has seen mistakes, he delivers his own opinion concerning some topics. Some of which his judgements regarding miracles of the prophets and irresistibility of Kuran. Elmalılı mentioning the prophecy is a divine verification besides it is an establishment supported by miracle, pointed out that miracles given to prophets have been exclusive and temporary, but the miraculousness of Kuran is universal and eternal. Elmalı has mentioned ten eternal aspects of irresitibility of Kuran in his commentary of The Kuran. These are: arrengement, verse, wording, rhetoric, aspect of unseen and visible, protected, being Arabic of Kuran; scientific rhetoric’s and being illiterate of Prophet. In this work, Judgements of Elmalı regarding irresistibility of Kuran were studied.

Keywords

commentary (Tafsir), Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Hak Dini Kurân Dili, Kur’ân’s rhetorics.