Linguistic Guidance of the Quran Recitation Modes Unique to Nafea‘ Al-Madani in the First Third of the Holy Quran: An Inductive, Descriptive, and Analytical Study

Abstract

This study aims to conduct a linguistic study of the Quran words recitational modes unique to Nafea    Al-Madani in order to elucidate their semantic implications. Nafea Al-Madani’s recitation mode incorporates diverse linguistic phenomena, including phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic, rhetorical, and dialectal features. For this purpose, the inductive, descriptive, and analytical approach was adopted for systematically examining Nafea Al-Madani’s linguistically contextualized Quran words recitation modes in the first third of the Holy Quran. The study consists of an introduction and four sections. Section one introduces Nafea Al-Madani and his narrators. Section two explores Quran recitation modes, their definitions, and types.  Section three examines the concept, categories, and terminology of linguistic guidance in Quran recitation modes. Key findings reveal that Nafea Al-Madani’s unique recitational words in the first third of the Quran total eleven, distributed as follows: three in Al-Baqarah, one in Al-‘Imran, one in Al-Nisa’, one in Al-Maidah, four in Al-A‘raf, and one in Al-Tawbah. Furthermore, the linguistic phenomena in Nafea Al-Madani’s recitation are interdependent; a word analyzed phonetically may intersect with morphological and semantic dimensions, reflecting the interconnectedness of linguistic layers in his recitation modes.