Interdisciplinary Approach to Studying the Text of the Qur’ān

Abstract

The article examines the language of the Qur’ān as an object of interdisciplinary study. Based on the research of the periods of the formation of the text of the Qur’ān and the available approaches to its description, the authors compare history and modernity, determining the prospects for the development of the Qur’ānic studies. As an example of particular areas of scholar research, the paper considers Qur’ān manuscript as an object of separate research. The authors cite both classical methods of codicological research and available solutions for digital processing of Arabographic manuscripts. Attention is also paid to the study of the language of the Qur’ān in a historical perspective through the development of the Arabic linguistic tradition. Another example of the application of an interdisciplinary approach was the study of the possibilities of carrying out linguistic analysis of the text of the Qur’ān using methods of automatic data processing. The effectiveness of methods of sentiment analysis was also considered. The use of Information and Communication Technologies in humanities in general, and the possibilities of processing Arabographic text in particular, have created new methods and perspectives for the development of the Qur’ānic Studies. An analysis of the Qur’ānic corpus, the use of artificial intelligence methods in conducting textual research will make it possible to verify some facts related to the historical development of the Arabic language, to reconstruct certain features of the linguistic situation on the Arabian Peninsula in the pre-Islamic period, as well as in the first centuries of Islam. In this regard, it is necessary to consider the Qur’ānic text in all its diversity using both traditional and innovative research methodologies, including taking into account the latest achievements of the humanities and natural sciences.