Metonymy in İslamic Civil Procedure

Qur'an opened new horizons that they did not know before for the Arabic society by widening their semantic world, which is a product of the limited environment and culture of Arabic society. Almighty Allah used the words and phrases of this society's native language to name the new meanings and states that Arabic society, whose intelligence and emotional worlds flourished, gained with the guidance of the kalam He sent and with the guidance of the prophet He chose. By this, the Arabic language gained a new spirit and content by experiencing a change in terms of meaning with the intervention of Islam. The words, which were transferred to religion from language, because of a relation in between, seemed to have figurative meanings in respect to these new meanings they were used in proportion to the previous ones. Although there are some Fiqh procedure scholars who reject metonymy, the public opinion is in the direction of seeing it as an inseparable part of language and Islamic sources. The Fiqh procedure is a scholarship which analyzes the methods of finding evidences from sharia sources and the linguistic and religious bases of these methods. Therefore, understanding in which cases wordings such as umum (general) and husus (particular) are used with a core meaning or metonymy had to be considered on a preferential basis, as it is one of the musts of these methods. In Islamic Civil Procedure, for the proper evaluation of the place and influence of metonymy, it was needed that this term had to be analyzed in terms of Arabic Eloquence (Belagha) and linguistic, to which this term belongs. For this reason, the definition of metonymy in terms of Arabic language, its conceptual framework, historical development, its place in modern linguistics and its treatment in Turkish language and literature were studied analytically in the first chapter. Furthermore, the relation of metonymy with gloss (te'vil) is emphasized with the aim of forming a basis for legal interpretation. In the second chapter, topics such as the importance and denotation of wordings in Fiqh methods; metonymy's existence, interpretation and reflection to sharia commands were surveyed. Additionally, views of procedure scholars about fact, explicit and allusion, which are the types of wording in terms of way of using. Beside this, the relationship between transfer debate and metonymy, and common wording was discussed. In this chapter, finally the approaches on the influence of metonymy and the reflection of these to matters of Fiqh were viewed.