TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christiansen,Johanne
TI  - The Exceptional Qurʾān: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book 
T2  - Islamic History and Thought
SN  - 9781463207298
AV  - PJ6696.Z5 R452917 2021
U1  - 297.1/226 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Islamic law
KW  - Interpretation and construction
KW  - History
KW  - Islam
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463242893
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463242893
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463242893/original
ER  -