Aesthetics of Dialogue between Textual Analysis and Meaning Production: A Hermeneutical Approach to Surahs Yusuf and Maryam in Light of the Perspectives of al-Massadi and Ricoeur

Abstract

Qur’anic Verse 
“Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you might give thought.”
(Surat Al-Baqarah, 2:219)

This study aims to explore the aesthetics of dialogue in the Qur’anic text as an ontological (existential) structure that transcends the informative function to produce being and meaning. It adopts a hermeneutical approach to Surah Yusuf and Surah Maryam (peace be upon them), employing a strategy of functional integration between two methodological currents: modern Arabic stylistics as formulated by Abd al-Salam al-Massadi, and philosophical hermeneutics as developed by Paul Ricoeur.

The study concludes that combining stylistic deviation as a procedural tool to regulate lexical shifts with the fusion of interpretive horizons enabled the disclosure of surplus meaning in the dialogues of the two surahs. Silence in Surah Maryam transformed from linguistic absence into an intensified speech act that generated contemporary jurisprudential and existential significations — the hermeneutics of silence. Meanwhile, dialogue in Surah Yusuf shifted from seductionto empowerment, reconstructing the self from an object of exchange into an existential agent. The study demonstrates that the Qur’anic text is a living structure capable of producing meaning and existence by bridging the gap between descriptive linguistic analysis and productive existential interpretation, thereby preserving constants from decline.