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The al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qurʾan’s Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes, by Nevin Reda

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 154 - 157, 30.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2020.111.205

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First Paragraph: Considering recent Western Qurʾānic studies, there is no doubt that “coherence/unity studies” is one of the prominent research areas. In this context, especially after the 1980s, the chapters (sūrahs) of the Qurʾān have been analyzed on the basis of the hypothesis that they are literary unities. Among the studies that ignited this literature was the Studien Zur Composition der Mekkanischen Suren (1981) by Angelika Neuwirth. Since then, these studies have ranged from short Meccan sūrahs to the longest Medinan ones. When considering the general conception of the Qurʾānic text from the 19th to the last quarter of the 20th century in Western literature, it would not be wrong to describe “coherence/unity studies” as a kind of “challenge” to previous studies describing the Qurʾānic text as “unsystematic,” “boring,” or possessing a “lack of unity/coherence.”

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 1, 154 - 157, 30.06.2020
https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2020.111.205

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Primary Language English
Subjects Religious Studies
Journal Section Book Reviews
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Ersin Kabakcı 0000-0002-0913-8087

Publication Date June 30, 2020
Submission Date April 5, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2020 Volume: 11 Issue: 1

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ISNAD Kabakcı, Ersin. “The Al-Baqara Crescendo: Understanding the Qurʾan’s Style, Narrative Structure, and Running Themes, by Nevin Reda”. Ilahiyat Studies 11/1 (June 2020), 154-157. https://doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2020.111.205.
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