| Textual Relations in the Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure Contributor(s): El-Awa, Salwa M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415554209 ISBN-13: 9780415554206 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $59.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: 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 Qur'anic studies and linguistics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Regional Studies |
| Dewey: 297.122 |
| Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.62 lbs) 186 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. |