The Composition of Srat Maryam

Auteur

Michel Cuypers is a member researcher at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo. He specialized in the study of the composition (na m) of the Qu'ran and received an international prize for his book The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur'an (2009).

A.H. Mathias Zahniser, Ph.D., 1973, a student of Georg Krotkoff, completed his dissertation on al-J hiz's Kit b al-'Uthm niyya, and has taught at Central Michigan University, Asbury Seminary and Greenville College, where he is Scholar-in-Residence.

Texte du rabat

This book studies the composition or structure of S rat Maryam - the 19th s ra of the Qur'an - according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Résumé
This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam the 19th sura of the Qur'an according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Contenu

1. General outline of S rat Maryam
   2. First sequence (1-63), Recollection of God's mercy towards his prophets 3. Second sequence (64-74), Angels comfort Muhammad 4. Third sequence (75-98), Eschatology and polemic on divine filiation 5. Structure of the whole s ra (1-98) 6. A holy history of Biblical prophets (1-74) 7. General conclusion