PREFACE

CHAPTER Ⅰ　SEMANTICS AND THE KORAN
　Ⅰ　SEMANTICS OF THE KORAN
　Ⅱ　INTEGRATION OF INDIVIDUAL CONCEPTS
　Ⅲ　‘BASIC’ MEANING AND ‘RELATIONAL’ MEANING
　Ⅳ　VOCABULARY AND WELTANSCHAUUNG

CHAPTER Ⅱ　KORANIC KEY-TERMS IN HISTORY
　Ⅰ　SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC SEMANTICS
　Ⅱ　THE KORAN AND THE POST-KORANIC SYSTEMS

CHAPTER Ⅲ　THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE KORANIC WELTANSCHAUUNG
　Ⅰ　PRELIMINARY REMARK
　Ⅱ　GOD AND MAN
　Ⅲ　THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY
　Ⅳ　THE UNSEEN AND THE VISIBLE
　Ⅴ　THE PRESENT WORLD AND THE HEREAFTER
　Ⅵ　ESCHATOLOGICAL CONCEPTS

CHAPTER Ⅳ　ALLĀH
　Ⅰ　THE WORD ALLĀH, ITS ‘BASIC’ AND ‘RELATIONAL’ MEANINGS
　Ⅱ　THE CONCEPT OF ALLĀH IN ARABIAN PAGANISM
　Ⅲ　THE JEWS AND THE CHRISTIANS
　Ⅳ　THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CONCEPT OF ALLĀH IN THE HANDS OF THE PAGAN
　ARABS
　Ⅴ　ALLĀH OF THE ḤANĪFS

CHAPTER Ⅴ　ONTOLOGICAL RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
　Ⅰ　THE CONCEPT OF CREATION
　Ⅱ　HUMAN DESTINY

CHAPTER Ⅵ　COMMUNICATIVE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN (Ⅰ)
― NON-LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION ―
　Ⅰ　THE ‘SIGNS’ OF GOD
　Ⅱ　DIVINE GUIDANCE
　Ⅲ　THE WORSHIP AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION

CHAPTER Ⅶ　COMMUNICATIVE RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN (Ⅱ)
― LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION ―
　Ⅰ　GOD’S SPEECH（KALAM ALLĀH ）
　Ⅱ　THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE WORD WAḤY
　Ⅲ　THE SEMANTICAL STRUCTURE OF REVELATION
　Ⅳ　REVELATION IN ARABIC
　Ⅴ　PRAYER（AL-DU⁽A⁾ ）

CHAPTER Ⅷ　JĀHILĪYAH AND ISLAM
　Ⅰ　ISLAM AND THE CONCEPT OF HUMBLE SUBMISSION
　Ⅱ　FROM ḤILM TO ISLAM
　Ⅲ THE CONCEPTION OF RELIGION（DĪN ）AS “OBEDIENCE”

CHAPTER Ⅸ　ETHICAL RELATION BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
　Ⅰ　GOD OF MERCY
　Ⅱ　GOD OF WRATH
　Ⅲ　WA⁽D AND WA⁽ID

REFERENCES
INDEX OF ARABIC WORDS