Qur??nic Stories

Leyla 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.

By directing readers? attention to the Qur?an?s narrative strategies for building relationships within and between some of its most important surahs, Ozgur Alhassen makes a welcome contribution to the growing number of studies focusing on the Qur?an?s sophisticated rhetorical choices.

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