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Semantics (3)

Course Description: This course covers the semantics of words in terms of their meanings, including polysemy, generality and specificity, matters related to specifiers, and types of word meanings in terms of being absolute or qualified, and cases of applying the absolute to the qualified.

Credits: 2

Prerequisites: ISF 349

Objectives of the course :

a. The student understands the reality of the common, general, and specific, their terminology, types, rulings, and applications.
b. The student should understand what specialization (Takhsis) means, its divisions, its methods, its rulings, and its applications.
c. The student should know the reality of the absolute and the restricted, their rulings, and the cases of applying the absolute to the restricted and their ruling.

Course outputs :

Knowledge and understanding:
- The student knows the reality of the general and the specific, their terms, and their rulings.
The student will understand the meaning of specialization, its types, and its related rulings.
3- The student knows the reality of absolute and restricted rulings and their related provisions.
4. The student knows the reality of the common term and the reasons for its commonality.
Skills:
The student will be able to infer the meanings and implications of texts based on understanding the significance of the general and the specific.
2. That the student realizes how to apply the general to the specific.
3. The student will be able to infer the meanings and implications of texts based on understanding the nature of the absolute and the qualified/restricted.
4. The student will be able to distinguish between instances of absolute application to a restricted scope.
Values, autonomy and responsibility:
The student must adhere to Islamic standards and values. .
2. To know how to handle group situations for decision-making and problem-solving.
3 - The student will be able to deal with information sources and their analytical tools, balance judgments and opinions, and choose the most correct option from multiple choices.

Additional information:

Course Topics:
First: The divisions of the indication of a word on its meaning in terms of ambiguity, generality, and specificity.
1- The aspect of dividing wording in terms of ambiguity, generality, and specificity.
2- The meaning of the shared, and its relationship to the general and specific.
3. Reasons for Subscription and its Forms.
4. Scholars' opinions on the ruling of applying the shared term to all its meanings.
5. Applying what the student learned about the meaning of commonality to jurisprudential branches
6- The meaning of the general term and its forms (Forms that indicate generality, and examples from religious texts).
7- The types of indication of the general term in terms of certainty and conjecture.
8 - Types of General Terms and Their Meanings:
– Considering its subject matter: (The general is intended for generality, and the general is intended for specificity).
- Considering its specificity, (general preserved, and general specific).
Considering the literal and semantic generality.
Using the indication of the general in interpreting texts.
10. Applying the general meaning to jurisprudential branches and newly emerging issues.
11 - The problem of lesser aggregation.
12. The general text pertaining to a specific cause, its cases, and the ruling on each case.
13- The meaning of "special" (al-khas), its types, and the explanation of the type of its indication.
14. The meaning of dedication (Takhsis), its types, ruling, and condition.
15- Separate allocations, and related matters and rulings.
16. Connected allocations, and related issues and rulings.
17- The difference between exception and exclusion with a detached pronoun.
18- The difference between allocation and copying.
19. Applying what has been studied regarding the specificity of the particular and specification to jurisprudential branches.
Second: The categories of the indication of a word to its meaning in terms of generality and specificity.
1. Definition of the Absolute, and explanation of its ruling with examples.
2. Definition of the restricted (muqayyad) and what is meant by restriction (taqyid), and clarification of the ruling of the restricted, with examples.
3. Their relationship with similar terms (the difference between general and specific, and between absolute and restricted).
4. The meaning of applying the absolute to the restricted, its cases, and the ruling on each case.
5. Applying what the student has learned in absolute and restricted terms to texts and jurisprudential branches.

Last updated: 2026-05-04