Shirk as a Phenomenon that Disrupts Tawhid: the Conceptual Area of Shirk in the Qur'an
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This study examines the meaning analysis of the concept of shirk by focusing its usage in the Quran. In this framework, faith and unbelief were accepted as the basic two terms of the Qur'an and shirk was discussed under the title of unbelief, its opposite of tawhid is so under the title of faith. Therefore, firstly, we talked about four basic terms that fall in the meaning area of tawhid because of the semantic method we are following in the research. These are iman, shukur, Islam and taqwa. In the second part, we dealt with five basic terms that are included in the area of shirk. These are kufr, dalala, zulm, fisq and israf. We have seen that research on shirk is very few and inadequate although different studies have been carried out on the tawhid. The fact that the shirk has not been studied in a particularly semantic methot has led us to make such an effort. Because it does not seem possible to fully understand the tawhid without understanding shirk. Likewise, it is possible to protect tawhid by knowing which thoughts and behaviors are shirk. In this context, we believe that it is necessary to redefine the basic concepts of the Qur'an through semantic studies. Because it is impossible to think and believe without correcting the concepts.
