Pure Linguistic Gender in the Holy Quran and its Relationship with Gender

Bonyadi, Batool Sadat

doi:10.22096/rc.2025.2057319.1249

Pure Linguistic Gender in the Holy Quran and its Relationship with Gender

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Batool Sadat Bonyadi

The Women and Family Study Research Center at University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran.

10.22096/rc.2025.2057319.1249

Abstract

Pure linguistic gender is a type of lingiuistic gender in the Arabic that does not refer to biological sex, but rather considers genderless elements to have a specific gender. The relationship of this type of gender with gender elements in the Holy Quran can be examined in various cases: actualy world, gender myths, gender attitudes, and schemas. It seems that proving a specific connection of gender myths and gender attitudes at the content level with the Quran is difficult and almost impossible. The best explanation for the status of pure gender in the Holy Quran is the schema theory. At the semantic level, this theory merely describes linguistic possibilities and does not provide specific meanings at the place of linguistic use because it basically describes the development of language and it is Prelingual matter . Also, the deviation from gender conformity and gender selection in some types of certain pure gender that occurred in some verses of the Quran were not identified in connection with specific gender content in the Quran. It seems that pure gender in the Quran is a prelingual structure that has been used for rhetorical purposes.

Keywords

Pure linguistic gender

Quran

gender

gender myths

schema

Subjects

Quranic Sciences and Theology

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