How the Qur'=an Works: Reading Sacred Narrative

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2023

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ISBN-13:
9780197654620
Related ISBNs:
9780197654613, 9780197654606
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Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts
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