Digital Oral Exegesis Authority and Methodology: The Construction of Women's Nature in Ustaz Adi Hidayat’s YouTube Lectures
Abstract
Digitally circulated explanations of women’s fitrah connect Qur’anic interpretation with expectations about bodily difference, family care, and social participation. Adi Hidayat’s lectures are important to examine because they combine classical citations with Arabic explanation and scientific vocabulary, making gendered claims appear authoritative across different registers of knowledge. This study explains the construction in two purposively selected YouTube recordings on Amal Sunnah and Dakwah Sunnah, totaling 2:50:39. Qualitative digital document analysis applies Islah Gusmian’s eight technical and three methodological categories to meaning-bearing, timestamped segments. The analysis groups verse explanations, lexical discussion, transmitted reports, family narratives, and scientific assertions, then compares their functions across the recordings. Validation rests on checking excerpts within lecture context, tracing source identification, and distinguishing the speaker’s claims from externally corroborated propositions; audience reception is not measured. The findings show thematic organization, a popular register, individual delivery, and non-academic provenance, alongside transmission, reasoning, and intertextual engagement. Ethical-psychological concerns predominate, supported by theological and linguistic explanation. Classical works and maternal narratives establish a repertoire of credibility, while scientific terminology introduces claims requiring separate verification: mitochondrial inheritance does not support a 75:25 ratio of total parental influence. The contribution is a case-specific account of integrative-contextual digital oral exegesis that separates the construction of authority from evidential validation and identifies the tension between affirming women’s dignity and naturalizing domestic roles
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