The Composition of the Qur'an - Couverture souple

Cuypers, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1350008052 ISBN 13 : 9781350008052

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

The text of the Qur'an appears to many to be desperately muddled and lacking any coherence. The Composition of the Qur'an provides a systematic presentation of the writing processes (or rhetoric) and argues that there is indeed a coherence to the Qur'anic text. Michel Cuypers shows that the ancient Semitic texts, of which the Qur'an is a part, do not obey the Greek rhetoric and that their basic principle is therefore not progressive linearity, but symmetry which can take several forms, following precise rules. He argues that the knowledge of this rhetorical code allows for a radically new analysis of the structure and rhetoric of the Qur'an.

Using copious amounts of examples from the text, The Composition of the Qur'an provides a new theoretical synthesis of Qur'anic rhetoric as well as a methodology for their application in further exegesis. A landmark publication in the field of Qur'anic Studies, this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies and Arabic Studies.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michel Cuypers is a researcher at the IDEO, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1350008052
• ISBN 13: 9781350008052
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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