Memahami Narasi Kisah al-Quran dengan Narrative Criticism (Studi atas Kajian A.H. Johns)
Abstract: The Quran had
various styles and modes in making up Gods word, one of which was the narrative
one. There were many narrative verses in the Quran -including verses telling
stories of His prophets- to which most of Muslim scholars unfortunately did not
devote their attention. A.H. Johns, a professor of ANU, was one of a few
scholars who focused his study on narrative criticism that was actually one of
branches of literary criticism. Unlike historical criticism which tended to
investigate the origins of a text and what lied behind it, literary criticism
gave much attention to interpretive acts of a text itself. Using this method of
interpretation, and relying on his belief that the Quran must be understood as
a both a process and an event, Johns explored possible meanings the verses
imply by making connection between the verse under discussion and other verses
in the same pericope and in the whole Sura. Through this method of
interpretation, Johns succeeded in discovering many novel meanings of narrative
verses of the Quran not found out by using any other method. This work wanted
to elaborate much on Johns study and showed some fortune and possibilities in
using this method in understanding the meaning of the Quran, especially of its
narrative verses.
Penulis: Wardatun Nadhiroh
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd130339
