| Textual Relations in the Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure Contributor(s): El-Awa, Salwa M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415363438 ISBN-13: 9780415363433 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $237.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2005 Annotation: "Textual Relations in the Qur'an "adopts a new methodology for reading Qur'anic texts through the use of Relevance Theory in linguistics and the analysis of the complex relations in the Qur'anic suras. This book shows the apparent thematic dis-connectivity in the long Qur'anic suras and the context and structure of the Qur'an are reread and explained in terms of a contemporary methodology to help readers see how they operate in the cognitive process by which meaning is created. Textual Relations in the Qur'an provides: ? A historical overview of the previous attempts to answer the question of coherence in the Qur'an. ? An introduction to the linguistic theory used in the analysis ? How the analysis can be used to explain the Qur'anic textual relations ? Two detailed studies of two quite different Qur'anic suras, each with a different set of textual problems to highlight different features of the methodology This book is a new development in Qur'anic studies which brings to the field of Qur'anic study the fruits of linguistics and the scientific study of human language, providing a systematic analysis of the Qur'anic suras. This book is essential reading for those with research interests in Islamic or Qur'anic studies, Linguistic or Relevance theory applications and Arabic Linguistics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 297.122 |
| LCCN: 2005004713 |
| Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur'an |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.34" W x 9.56" (0.91 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies. The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety can be explained. This book proposes a new explanation of Qur'anic text structure, arguing that the long suras have structure that are explicable within a framework for the mechanisms of human verbal communication. Through a systematic step-by-step analysis of the cognitive process involved in verbal communication and comprehension of text, this work provides interesting and useful insights into methods of analysis, mechanisms and dynamics of the Qur'anic text structure. The unique application of a sophisticated linguistic theory to the Qur'an introduces an entirely new way of reading the Qur'an and with detailed analysis of two Qur'anic passages the book presents a solid working out of the theory that will be accessible to both linguists and scholars of the Qur'an. |