Qur'ānic Stories

God, Revelation and the Audience

AvLeyla Ozgur Alhassen

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-03-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:424 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474483179

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

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Leyla Ozgur Alhassen is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011, focusing on Arabic literature. Dr Ozgur Alhassen has published articles in journals such as Religion and Literature, Religion and the Arts, Comparative Islamic Studies, The Muslim World and Journal of Qur'anic Studies.

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This monograph is an impressive addition to the growing number of studies on the Qur’an as a literary text. [...] For all readers of this extraordinary performative text, whatever their background, motive, or outlook, the stories come alive with a fresh, invigorating and engaging analysis, at once exploratory and comprehensive.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: A Narratological, Rhetorical Approach to Qur’anic Stories; 2. Knowledge, Control and Consonance in Surat Āl ‘Imrān 3:33-62; 3. God, Families and Secrets in the Story of Surat Maryam 19:1-58 ; 4. Evidence, Judgment and Remorse in Surat Yūsuf; 5. Merging Words and Making Connections in Surat Ṭaha; 6. Surat al-Qaṣaṣ and Its Audience; 7. Conclusions: Reading the Qur’an as God’s Narrative.

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