The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis - Hardcover

Michel Cuypers

 
9781474227483: The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1474227481 ISBN 13: 9781474227483
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Synopsis

The text of the Quran appears to many to be desperately muddled and lacking any coherence. The Composition of the Quran provides a systematic presentation of the writing processes (or rhetoric) and argues that there is indeed a coherence to the Quranic text. Michel Cuypers shows that the ancient Semitic texts, of which the Quran is a part, do not obey the Greek rhetoric and that their basic principle is therefore not progressive linearity, but symmetry which can take several forms, following precise rules. He argues that the knowledge of this rhetorical code allows for a radically new analysis of the structure and rhetoric of the Quran.

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About the Author

Michel Cuypers is a researcher at the IDEO, the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1474227481
ISBN 13 
9781474227483
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
224

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