ABSTRACT
The
dissertation is titled:"A phonological study of minimal pairs in the
the last one-sixth of theholy Qur'an". The DISSERTATION present minimal
pairs that occurred in the Qur'anic portion reflect to it
identificational role of the phonems in the minimal pairs and the
meanings of the words. The dissertation comprises five chapters and
conclusion. The first chapter is an introduction which provides the
topic, reasons, objectives, importance, Area of concentration, and
dissertation method. The second chapter is a theoretical study on Arabic
phonetics. The third chapter discusses phonemes and their types,
meaning and terminologies. The forth chapter discovers the phonological
roleand semantic role related to antonyms in the last one-six of the
Qur'an while the fifth chapter discovers the phonological and semantic
role in relation to synonyms in the last one-sixth of the Qur'an.