The al-Baqara crescendo : understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes / Nevin Reda.

Author
Reda, Nevin, 1965- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xi, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    "This book is a study of the poetics of Qurʼanic narrative, specifically the poetics of Surat al-Baqara, the second and longest sura in the Qurʼan. It argues that the sura, which has often been dismissed by Orientalist critics as a jumbled collection of unrelated material, can be appreciated as a coherent composition by approaching it as an oral text, that is, by paying attention to oral structural markers such as repetition."-- Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-246) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • 1. How to read the Qur'an holistically : understanding the rationale
    • 2. Beginning at the beginning : Al-Fātiḥa as a prelude to Surat al-Baqara
    • 3. Symmetry and a mounting dynamic : al-Baqara's skeletal outline
    • 4. Thematic affirmation : al-Baqara's chiastic structure
    • 5. "God as guide" : Surat al-Baqara's running theme in the divine self-revelatory reading
    • 6. Placing humanity at the focal point : "responsibility" as the pedagogical running theme of Surat al-Baquara
    • 7. Windows into the tradition : al-Biqā'ī and al-Ṭabāṭabā'ī on Surat al-Baqara
    • Conclusion
    • Appendix : Holistic approaches in Biblical studies.
    Other format(s)
    Issued also in electronic format.
    ISBN
    • 9780773548855 ((cloth))
    • 0773548858 ((cloth))
    • 9780773548862 ((paper))
    • 0773548866 ((paper))
    LCCN
    2016416813
    OCLC
    958271828
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