MENGGUGAT OTENTISITAS SYI'IR JAHILIYAH (Telaah atas Kritik Thoha Husein Terhadap Nalar Tafsir Syi'ri)

Wijaya, Aksin (2015) MENGGUGAT OTENTISITAS SYI'IR JAHILIYAH (Telaah atas Kritik Thoha Husein Terhadap Nalar Tafsir Syi'ri). JURNAL'ANIL ISLAM, 3 (1). pp. 23-52. ISSN 2085-4080

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Abstract

Not all Arabs, while they were Arabic native speakers, were able to understand the Quran in the Prophet era. Therefore, some mufassir(interpreters) use jahiliyah syrir(pre-Islamic poetry) as a means to understand the Quran. Al-Thabari, one of prominent Islamic scholars, was one of them. The problem is that, according to Thaha Husein (a controversial modern Egyptian intellectual), a lot of the Syi'ir is not authentic so that it does not guarantee a correct comprehension of the Quran. This article focuses on Thaha Husein's thoughts on the authenticity of the pre-Islamic poetry descriptively-philosophically by investigating his
arguments in his famous book 'Fi Syi'ri al-Jahilr (On Pre-Islamic Poetry) which was then changed into 'Fi al-Jahili' (On Pre-Islamic Literature) with some revisions. This study mainly discusses the authenticity of the pre-Islamic poetry, its urgency in interpreting the Quran, and how the Quran views pre-Islam Arab society. It is revealed in the article that a lot of pre-Islamic poetry was not composed in the era of ignorance (Jahiliyah) by pre-Islamic Arab poet but by plagiarists in the era of Abbasiyah Empire for some purposes: political, religion, Qishshah, tribal fanaticism, and hadith narrators. Thus, it is reasonable, according to Thaha
Husein, that a lot of the pre-Islamic poetry neither fit in with pre-Islam Arab nor describe objectively pre-Islamic Arab society. It is sufficient to refer to the
Quran, which certainly valid, to obtain objective descriptions of the pre-Islamic Arab society.

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