"The Holy Month of Ramadan, Itiqaf and Fasting In Jahiliyya" "Period In Arabs"

In this article, the roots and phenomena of the holy month of Ramadan, and Itiqaf and Fasting that are specific rituals for this month and are mentioned as being holy in Islam in the Quran, regarding in the Jahiliyya Arabs before Islam have been investigated. In this context, it has been examined the question that whether the holy month of Ramadan, Itiqaf and fasting rituals that reflected in the Quran are the original elements or not in the respect of the first (ibda) and invented (icad) rituals. Similarly, it has also been investigated in the present study whether the hypothesis claiming that such Islamic forms in our tradition are based on Arabic customs, and are a product of the well-known Arabic tradition that refer everything that exist in Jahiliyya and that are reflected in the Quran to Abraham and Ishmael; or whether they are an extension of the judgments that refer to the happen-ing events (mutabakatun lil-waki) by the Revelations (the Quran)in this respect. As a result of the methodology used in the pres- ent study, which was conducted as collecting, analyzing and synthesizing the data from classical sources about Jahiliyya, it was concluded that the holy month of Ramadan, whose holiness is mentioned in a magniloquent manner in the Quran, and which includes the images about this month including the contemplations, benefaction, Itiqaf, piety, and other types of worshipping was already known and famous by Jahiliyya Arabs.