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The Exceptional Qurʾān : Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book / Johanne Christiansen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic History and Thought ; 26Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463207298
  • 9781463242893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.1/226 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ6696.Z5 R452917 2021
  • PJ6696.Z5
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Linguistic and Textual Features of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Two. Direct Legal Exceptions in the Qurʾān – An Overview -- Chapter Three. Recurring Legal Arguments of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Four. Legal Hypotheticals with a Dispensatory Aim in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Five. Legal Exceptions in the Biblical Traditions and Late Antiquity -- Chapter Six. A System Theoretical Approach to the Qurʾān -- Chapter Seven. Balancing the Qurʾānic System – The Use of Exceptive Language as a Sign of Flexibility -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The Exceptional Qurʾān: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam’s Holy Book is a synchronic, theoretical study of the Qurʾānic complex of exception and flexibility. Through analyses of rhetorical devices, including direct exceptions, recurring standardized arguments with a dispensatory aim, and modifying hypotheticals within the Qurʾān’s legal discourse, the author argues that this complex seems to be – if not entirely unique – articulated in a new and deliberate manner as compared to previous scriptures: The Qurʾān continuously negotiates a balance between strictness and leniency, between principle and dispensation. Joining its philological results with the system theoretical framework of anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport, The Exceptional Qurʾān considers how such rhetorical strategies contributed to the systemic long-term durability of the Qurʾān, becoming the successful founding document of a religious community and discursive tradition.
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Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Linguistic and Textual Features of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Two. Direct Legal Exceptions in the Qurʾān – An Overview -- Chapter Three. Recurring Legal Arguments of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Four. Legal Hypotheticals with a Dispensatory Aim in the Qurʾān -- Chapter Five. Legal Exceptions in the Biblical Traditions and Late Antiquity -- Chapter Six. A System Theoretical Approach to the Qurʾān -- Chapter Seven. Balancing the Qurʾānic System – The Use of Exceptive Language as a Sign of Flexibility -- Bibliography -- Index

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The Exceptional Qurʾān: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam’s Holy Book is a synchronic, theoretical study of the Qurʾānic complex of exception and flexibility. Through analyses of rhetorical devices, including direct exceptions, recurring standardized arguments with a dispensatory aim, and modifying hypotheticals within the Qurʾān’s legal discourse, the author argues that this complex seems to be – if not entirely unique – articulated in a new and deliberate manner as compared to previous scriptures: The Qurʾān continuously negotiates a balance between strictness and leniency, between principle and dispensation. Joining its philological results with the system theoretical framework of anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport, The Exceptional Qurʾān considers how such rhetorical strategies contributed to the systemic long-term durability of the Qurʾān, becoming the successful founding document of a religious community and discursive tradition.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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