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The al-Baqara crescendo : understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes / Nevin Reda.
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Reda, Nevin, 1965-
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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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BP128.17 .R43 2017
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Qurʼan Sūrat al-Baqarah
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Advancing studies in religion ; 1.
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Advancing studies in religion ; 1
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Summary note
"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.
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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.
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9780773548855 ((cloth))
0773548858 ((cloth))
9780773548862 ((paper))
0773548866 ((paper))
LCCN
2016416813
OCLC
958271828
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