Kur’an’da Firavun ve Kavminin Başına Geldiği Belirtilen Musibetlerin Tefsir Kaynakları, Tevrat ve Bilimsel Veriler Üzerinden Değerlendirilmesi
Evaluating the Plagues Uttered in Qur’an, Experienced by Pharaoh and His Peoples, through Islamic Exegesis Sources, the Data in Torah and Scientific Approaches

Summary/Abstract: In this study the signs of deluge (tufan), locusts, insects, frogs and blood uttered in Quran (A‘râf 7/133) and corresponding with them in Torah, the plagues of blood, frogs, gnats/lice, flies/insects, murrain, boils, hailstorms, locusts, darkness and the death of firstborns are discussed through Islamic narratives, the data in Torah and scientific approaches. With regard to Qur’an mentioning that Moses has been given nine signs (İsrâ 17/101, Neml 27/12), our article at first aimed at revealing these nine signs. Besides, the correspondence between signs uttered in Qur’an and plagues uttered in Torah and evaluating the narratives in exegesis sources and Torah through casuality, consistency, reality, cosmic and magical aspect and scientific approach are aimed. Within this framework, the determinations in the exegesis sources as to these nine signs are cited and a view is formed by us thereanent. Moreover, aforesaid correspondence is estimated by us on the basis of semantic fields of the words uttered in Quran and scientific data. In regard to a minute amount of scientific approach in East, thereanent the scientific views of the occident researchers through the data in Torah are discoursed. Within this scope as a exogenous factor, the eruption of Thera volcano at Aegean Sea and as a internal factor, the natural events which have probably occured in Egypt are discoursed.

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