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Author Reda, Nevin, 1965- author.

Title The al-Baqara crescendo : understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes / Nevin Reda
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource
Series Advancing studies in religion ; 1
Advancing studies in religion ; 1.
Contents Introduction -- 1. How to read the Qur'an holistically : understanding the rationale -- 2. Beginning at the beginning : Al-Fātiḥa as a prelude to Surat al-Baqara -- 3. Symmetry and a mounting dynamic : al-Baqara's skeletal outline -- 4. Thematic affirmation : al-Baqara's chiastic structure -- 5. "God as guide" : Surat al-Baqara's running theme in the divine self-revelatory reading -- 6. Placing humanity at the focal point : "responsibility" as the pedagogical running theme of Surat al-Baquara -- 7. Windows into the tradition : al-Biqā'ī and al-Ṭabāṭabā'ī on Surat al-Baqara -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Holistic approaches in Biblical studies
Summary "This book is a study of the poetics of Qurʼanic narrative, specifically the poetics of Surat al-Baqara, the second and longest sura in the Qurʼan. It argues that the sura, which has often been dismissed by Orientalist critics as a jumbled collection of unrelated material, can be appreciated as a coherent composition by approaching it as an oral text, that is, by paying attention to oral structural markers such as repetition."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah -- Commentaries
Qurʼan. Sūrat al-Baqarah fast
Subject RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Genre/Form Commentaries
Form Electronic book
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