Structural Dividers in the Qur'an

This volume showcases a wide range of contemporary approaches to the identification of literary structures within Qur'anic surahs. Recent academic studies of the Qur'an have taken an increasing interest in the concept of the surah as a unity and, with it, the division of complete surahs into consecutive sections or parts.

Autorentext

Marianna Klar is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at Oxford University, Senior Research Associate at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her publications focus on the Qur'an's structure, its narratives, and its literary context. She has also worked extensively on tales of the prophets within the medieval Islamic historiographical tradition and on Qur'anic exegesis.

Inhalt

1. Structural Dividers in the Qur'an: Preliminary Remarks and Suggestions for Supplementary Reading Marianna Klar Part I. Competing Structures: Srat l Imrn, Srat al-Alaq, and Srat Maryam 2. The Poetics of Srat l Imrn's Narrative Structure (Q 3) Nevin Reda 3. Beyond Ring Composition: A Comparison of Formal Features in Srat al-Alaq (Q 96) and Bavli Bava Batra 8a Holger Zellentin 4. The Miraculous Birth Stories in the Interpretation of Srat Maryam (Q 19): An Exercise in a Discourse Grammar of the Qur'an A.H. Mathias Zahniser Part II. Small-Scale Structural Markers and Connectives 5. Oaths in the Qur'an: A Structural Marker Under the Impact of Knowledge Change Nora K. Schmid 6. A Preliminary Catalogue of Qur'anic Saj Techniques: Beat Patterning and Parallelism, and Rhyme Marianna Klar 7. Discourse Markers and the Structure of Intertextual Relations in Medium-Length Qur'anic Surahs: The Case of Srat h (Q 20) Salwa El-Awa Part III. The Question of Composite Surahs 7. Introductory Oaths and the Question of Composite Surahs Devin J. Stewart 8. Structural Coherence in the Qur'an: How to See the Connections Muhammad Abdel Haleem 9. Towards a Redactional History of the Medinan Qur'an: A Case Study of Srat al-Nis (Q 4) and Srat al-Midah (Q 5) Nicolai Sinai