How the Qur'ān Works
Reading Sacred Narrative
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 August 2023
- ISBN 9780197654606
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages198 pages
- Size 237x164x17 mm
- Weight 417 g
- Language English 489
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Short description:
How the Qur'an Works: Reading Sacred Narrative focuses on Qur'anic narrative, and specifically, repetition in Qur'anic stories. This book begins its analysis looking at repetition on a large scale-structure-and moves to a small scale-root letters. The book takes a journey through the Qur'an, often expansive, moving from one verse to another, one story to another, focusing on narratological elements while conducting a fine reading of Qur'anic material in order to understand how these techniques enhance a theological agenda. It helps us to better understand particular Qur'anic stories, Qur'anic literary style and Qur'anic theology.
MoreLong description:
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.
This careful study may change Qur'an readers' strategy: rather than think of stories repeated in the Qur'an as merely the same basic narrative, with different elements or wordings, the reader may approach the variants as keys to an unfolding understanding of the theological points being taught.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Why Repetition?
2. Chapter Two: Repetition in Structure: Parallels, Reversals and Triangles
3. Chapter Three: Repetition in the Qur'anic Story of Musa
4. Chapter Four: Repetition and the Portrayal of Time in the Story of Musa and Harun in the Qur'an
5. 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 Inspiration
7. Chapter Seven: Repetition in Sarat al-Qamar and a Comparison with Surat al-Shu'ara
8. Conclusion: Connections, Narrative and Power
9. Appendices
Appendix A: Musa
Appendix B: Surat al-Shu'ara
Appendix C: Surat al-Qamar and Comparisons of Surat al-Shu'ara with Surat al-Qamar
