Terms of Directions the Holy Quran and Pre-Islamic Poetry: A Semantic Study

This study discusses the meanings and significances of directions expressions in Pre-Islamic poetry and the Holy Quran. The study is divided into three chapters, introduction, and a preface. In the preface, the researcher discussed the designations of directions that were originally used as names for winds, their types, places from where they blow, their intensity, easiness and the sounds those winds make. The researcher also illustrated the relationship between those expressions. The researcher also discussed the semantic development of that those expressions have undergone over the course of history. In the first chapter, the researcher explained the designations of directions, their types in language, the origin of the word direction (Jihat from the stem word Wajh meaning face in Arabic). The researcher also explained the different types of directions including constant directions, absolute directions and relative directions which are connected to other types of directions. In the second chapter, the researcher discussed how Arabs used to express directions, this includes directions people understand through an explicit, single expression, directions that are conveyed through a compound that consists of a Jar (preposition) and majruwr, additional compound, phrasal verb, descriptive compound and the directions that are defined by the direction of winds. In the third chapter however, the researcher discussed some linguistic issues, the semantic development of the relationships that organize words including derivation, metaphor, verbal and moral common, Arabized and intruder expressions, and placing the adjective in place of the item being described. Finally, the researcher concluded with a number of results and outcomes.