معني شناسي و كاربردشناسي حنيف در قرآن

Semantics and Pragmatics of Hanifin the Qurʹan

The term band and its plural, hunafa, have been used in the Qurʹan twelve times and in the historical and narrative texts in various meanings. In this paper, the author is first of all dealing with the etymology of the term. Upon educing its literal meanings and explaining its course of development in Arabic language, he goes on to state that considering the Qurʹan and the Prophetʹs traditions as well as the extant evidence the term hanif has been used figuratively in early Islam. However, it has over time been applied terminologically as meaning .ʹMuslin,".