Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
33
result(s) for
"Qurʼan Language, style."
Sort by:
An oral-formulaic study of the Qur'an
The Qur’an makes extensive use of older religious material, stories, and traditions that predate the origins of Islam, and there has long been a fierce debate about how this material found its way into the Qur’an. This unique book argues that this debate has largely been characterized by a failure to fully appreciate the Qur’an as a predominately oral product. Using innovative computerized linguistic analysis, this study demonstrates that the Qur’an displays many of the signs of oral composition that have been found in other traditional literature. When one then combines these computerized results with other clues to the Qur’an’s origins (such as the demonstrably oral culture that both predated and preceded the Qur’an, as well as the “folk memory” in the Islamic tradition that Muhammad was an oral performer) these multiple lines of evidence converge and point to the conclusion that large portions of the Qur’an need to be understood as being constructed live, in oral performance. Combining historical, linguistic, and statistical analysis, much of it made possible for the first time due to new computerized tools developed specifically for this book, Bannister argues that the implications of orality have long been overlooked in studies of the Qur’an. By relocating the Islamic scripture firmly back into an oral context, one gains both a fresh appreciation of the Qur’an on its own terms, as well as a fresh understanding of how Muhammad used early religious traditions, retelling old tales afresh for a new audience.
eBook
Qur'ān and the lyric imperative
This book examines the complex and dynamic relationship between the Qur'an and Arabic poetry. Its four case studies focus on anomalies and contradictions within the Qur'ano-Arabic literary tradition in order to demonstrate how the tension between the Qur'an and poetry generates meaning.
eBook
A comparative lexical study of Qur'ānic Arabic
In this analytical work, the lexical relationships between Arabic, based on the Qur'ānic register, and Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician Epigraphic, South Arabian and Ge'ez are established. Its aim is to assess the various degrees of cultural proximity between these Semitic languages.
eBook
Shaping a Qur'ānic Worldview
Exploring the subjectivity of the Qur¿an's meaning in the world, this book analyses Qur¿anic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric.
Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the ¿Abbasid Caliph al-Ma¿mun (r. 813-833), whose rule coincided with the maturation of classical Islamic political thought and literary culture. She demonstrates how Qur¿anic referencing functions as tropological exegesis, whereby verses in the Qur¿an are reinterpreted through the lens of subjective experience. At the same time socio-historical experiences are understood in terms of the Qur¿an's moral typology, which consists of interrelated polarities that define good and bad moral characters in mutual orientation. Through strategic deployment of scriptural references within the logical scheme of rhetorical argument, the Caliph constructs moral analogies between paradigmatic characters in the Qur¿an and people in his social milieu, and situates himself as moral reformer and guide, in order to persuade his audiences of the necessity of the Caliphate and the religio-moral imperative of obedience to his authority.
The Ma¿munid case study is indicative of the nature and function of Qur¿anic referencing across historical periods, and thus contributes to broader conversations about the impact of the Qur¿an on the shaping of Islamic civilization. This book is an invaluable resource for those with an interest in Early Islamic History, Islam and the rhetoric of contemporary Middle East regional and global Islamic politics.
eBook
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The literature on Balaghah (the art of Arabic eloquence) and commentaries on the Quran stress that the style of the Quran is beautiful, eloquent and inimitable. This literature identifies word order as one of the most distinctive aspects of Quranic style. One of the main reasons for this is that, compared to English, Arabic has fewer restrictions on word order, thanks to its elaborate verb inflection system and case marking. This flexibility allows for the foregrounding of some elements withi.
eBook