Textual Relations in the Qur'an

Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of Qur'anic studies and linguistics.

Auteur

Salwa El-Awa is a Lecturer in Qur'anic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, where she teaches Qur'anic hermeneutics and methods of Islamic text interpretation. Her main research interest is analysis of Qur'anic discourse. Among her recent publications are a study on repetition in the Qur'an and an Arabic book on the role of context in interpretation of Qur'anic homonyms.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Historical Overview 2. The Linguistic Study of Textual Relations 3. Textual Relations and Section Division in Sura 33, (Al-Ahzab) 4. Textual Relations and Paragraph Division in Sura 75, (Al-Qiyama). Conclusion