How the Qur'ān Works

Reading Sacred Narrative

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvLeyla Ozgur Alhassen,Independent Scholar) Ozgur Alhassen, Leyla (Independent Scholar

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The Qur'an is a text of extraordinary depth and complexity. In How the Qur'an Works, Leyla Ozgur Alhassen takes the reader on a journey through the Qur'an, moving from one verse to another, one story to another, focusing on narratological elements while conducting a close reading in order to understand particular Qur'anic stories and to show how the text's literary techniques enhance its theological agenda. She unpacks the text by focusing on Qur'anic narrative, and specifically, repetition in Qur'anic stories. Repetition is an important part of the Qur'an's literary technique. Ozgur Alhassen traces the use of repetition as a narrative device from the text's overall structure to individual letters. She compares different Qur'anic stories and explores the kinds of repetition that occur in them and what purposes they serve. Repetition, she shows, forges patterns, connections, and layers of meaning that develop, complicate, and comment on the Qur'an's messages.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-08-21
Mått164 x 237 x 17 mm
Vikt417 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor198
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197654606

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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen is a Qur'anic studies scholar and the author of Qur'anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience. Her scholarship revolves around Qur'anic stories, style and interpretation in literature, performance, and art, across historical periods, languages, and disciplinary boundaries. She has a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Why Repetition? 2. Chapter Two: Repetition in Structure: Parallels, Reversals and Triangles3. Chapter Three: Repetition in the Qur'anic Story of Musa4. Chapter Four: Repetition and the Portrayal of Time in the Story of Musa and Harun in the Qur'an5. Chapter Five: Echoing Phrases, Words and Actions in Qur'anic Stories: Exchange Encounters, Fasting, Feasting and Faith 6. Chapter Six: Repetition in Surat al-Shu'ara: Prophethood, Power and Inspiration7. Chapter Seven: Repetition in Sarat al-Qamar and a Comparison with Surat al-Shu'ara8. Conclusion: Connections, Narrative and Power9. AppendicesAppendix A: MusaAppendix B: Surat al-Shu'araAppendix C: Surat al-Qamar and Comparisons of Surat al-Shu'ara with Surat al-Qamar