A Research on the Gendered Arabic Language and Its Representations in the Qur’an

Examination of the language of Quran from the gender point of view is a modern approach in linguistic studies of contemporary Quran researchers. In the present research, the Arabic as a gendered language and its representation in Quranic language has been examined. The gendered language represents men and women in an unequal way. So, some kinds of bias and prejudice will appear towards one gender and the other gender will suffer discrimination. As language is deemed to be one of the most important components of culture in any society, application of gendered examples could directly affect the status of men and women in culture and society. The fundamental goal of the present research is to provide a series of information to make aware the mentalities regarding Arabic gendered language. So, there is an attempt to examine the Arabic language and the language of Quran from the perspective of linguistics of gender as a gendered language. Research methodology in this study is descriptive - analytical because it describes the language of Quran as being gendered through collecting linguistic evidences from Quran and it represents the gender discrimination existing in Arabic used in Quranic text. The results show that without any doubt Arabic is a gender sensitive language and masculine is dominant in words and vocabulary. However, the most important characteristics of Arabic is its strength in generation of wide range of meaning and its interpretation, which gives this language more ability in producing equality implications or interpretations. On the other hand.