The Holy Qu'uran & social sciences research: a handbook - Couverture souple

Kouaouci, Ali

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798294435820

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Struggling to apply rigorous social science methodology to sacred text without overstepping the boundaries of interpretation? If you have searched for a principled, tool-supported guide to Qur'anic discourse analysis and found only exegesis on one side and secular corpus linguistics on the other, this handbook was written for you. Focusing on the first seven Surahs of the Holy Qur'an, it places two complementary analytical frameworks side by side: the program developed by Kaheel for counting and analysing the letters and words of the Holy Qur'an, and QDA-Miner — the qualitative data analysis software produced in Quebec by Provalis Research — delivering both quantitative precision and qualitative depth within a single, cohesive methodology. The result is a research pathway that is reproducible, transparent, and deeply respectful of the divine text it examines. Through QDA-Miner's Provalis coding environment you will generate statistical and graphical outputs — word cloud visualisations, proximity-of-verses maps, and co-occurrence frequency analyses — that reveal the structural and semantic architecture of scripture in ways traditional close-reading alone cannot reach. The co-occurrence frequency scripture mapping feature, in particular, opens genuinely new research questions about repetition and thematic clustering across Surahs, giving you a semantic map of patterns that spans the corpus without presuming to interpret the Word of Allah. Computational linguistics meets divine verse here not as a challenge to faith but as a tool for rigorous scholarly inquiry. Quantitative textual pattern analysis surfaces relationships invisible to the unaided eye, while the scholarship of Ibn Kathir and Al-Mawdudi anchors every computational finding within established exegetical tradition — so your results are always read with appropriate interpretive humility. You will feel the satisfaction of working at a genuinely rare intersection: reverent Islamic methodology and cutting-edge social sciences research. Whether you are a postgraduate student designing your first discourse study or an experienced scholar seeking a structured, ethically grounded approach to Qur'anic corpus analysis, this handbook offers the guidance you have been searching for. It does not presume to interpret divine text. It equips you to study it with integrity, rigour, and humility — and to produce findings that will stand up to the scrutiny of both the academy and your own conscience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798294435820
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 364
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg