Document Type : Original Article

Author

• mahdi hamidi

islamic school of art

Abstract

Title:
The dialogue between Quran and audiences through the story of Adam creation based on dialogism theory of Bakhtin.
Abstract:
Dialogism is the main theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, that there is in three area. One of them is the dialogue between text and audience. In this article at first the dialogism and the concept of polyphony is explained and then the dialogue between text and audience is been discussed. Each text before creation has some imaginary readers and after creation has some real readers in different levels. Each text has a wide range of audience from direct audiences to every person who read it. Quran as a text has this quality. Quran attend to audiences in different forms. This quality can be seen in the stories of Quran. In the perspective of Quran, the audiences and readers are active that supposed to start a dialogue with text. In this article the theory of dialogism. In this article the theory of dialogism is compared on Quran. As a case study, the focus is on the story of Adam creation in Quran.

Keywords

• Bakhtin
• Dialogism
• Polyphony
• Imaginary readers
• The story of Adam creation in Quran