TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reda,Nevin
TI  - The al-Baqara crescendo: understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes 
T2  - Advancing studies in religion
SN  - 9780773548879
AV  - BP128.17 
U1  - 297.1/22721 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago
PB  - McGill-Queen's University Press
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Sūrat al-Baqarah
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - Coran
KW  - Sourate al-Baqarah
KW  - Commentaires
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Islam
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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."--
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