Semantic relationships among the Quranic verses related to divorce: An Osuli-Fiqhi, interpretive, and linguistic approach

Quranic verses have vast semantic relationships, but due to the difference in goals and methods, and the differentiations of various sciences only some dimensions of Quranic verses have been studied. To have an over-all understanding of the issue of divorce in Quran, one should adopt an approach which studies all the implicit and explicit semantic relationships among the verses. After explaining the semantic interactions among verses according Fiqh and Osul, Tafsir, and linguistics, the paper tries to study categories such as the specific and the general, the absolute and the limited, the abrogating and the abrogated, the brief and the fully explained, the relationships between verses and their occasion of revelation, different stylistic relationship, the unity of verses, and conceptual blending in verses. In addition, some samples are also mentioned in each case. Thus, there is apparently a trans-jurisprudential necessity to study divorce and to implement and interpret the related laws.