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Qur’ānic Stories : God, Revelation and the Audience / Leyla Ozgur Alhassen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature : ESCALPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (184 p.) : 1 B/W illustrations 5 B/W tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474483179
  • 9781474483209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 297.1/226 23
LOC classification:
  • BP130.58 .O94 2021eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: A Narratological and Rhetorical Approach to Qur’ānic Stories -- 2 Knowledge, Control and Consonance in Sūrat Āl ‘Imrān 3:33–62 -- 3 God, Families and Secrets in the Story of Sūrat Maryam 19:1–58 -- 4 Evidence, Judgment and Remorse in Sūrat Yūsuf -- 5 Merging Words and Making Connections in Sūrat ˝aha -- 6 Sūrat al-Qa‚a‚ and its Audience -- 7 Conclusion: Reading the Qur’ān as God’s Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur’anExplores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur’anDraws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur’anic studies to develop a new methodologyExamines the interaction of the text, audience, characters and narratorAnalyses Qur’anic commentary: classical and modern; Sunni, Sufi and Shi‘iStudies stories that represent the variety of Qur’anic narrative: Surat Yūsuf; Surat Āl ‘Imrān; Surat Maryam; Surat Ṭaha; and Surat al-QaṣaṣLeyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur’an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur’anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen. Ozgur Alhassen argues that, in the Qur’an, some narrative features that are otherwise puzzling can be seen as instances in which God, as the narrator, centres himself while putting the audience in its place. In essence, this makes the act of reading an interaction between God and the audience.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: A Narratological and Rhetorical Approach to Qur’ānic Stories -- 2 Knowledge, Control and Consonance in Sūrat Āl ‘Imrān 3:33–62 -- 3 God, Families and Secrets in the Story of Sūrat Maryam 19:1–58 -- 4 Evidence, Judgment and Remorse in Sūrat Yūsuf -- 5 Merging Words and Making Connections in Sūrat ˝aha -- 6 Sūrat al-Qa‚a‚ and its Audience -- 7 Conclusion: Reading the Qur’ān as God’s Narrative -- Bibliography -- Index

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Explores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur’anExplores the use of storytelling and narrative devices in the Qur’anDraws on narratology, rhetoric and Qur’anic studies to develop a new methodologyExamines the interaction of the text, audience, characters and narratorAnalyses Qur’anic commentary: classical and modern; Sunni, Sufi and Shi‘iStudies stories that represent the variety of Qur’anic narrative: Surat Yūsuf; Surat Āl ‘Imrān; Surat Maryam; Surat Ṭaha; and Surat al-QaṣaṣLeyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur’an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur’anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen. Ozgur Alhassen argues that, in the Qur’an, some narrative features that are otherwise puzzling can be seen as instances in which God, as the narrator, centres himself while putting the audience in its place. In essence, this makes the act of reading an interaction between God and the audience.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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