Name: Qur’Ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature)
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Author: Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
ISBN: 9781474483179

portada Qur’Ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781474483179

Synopsis "Qur’Ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature)"

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur’an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur’anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen. Ozgur Alhassen argues that, in the Qur’an, some narrative features that are otherwise puzzling can be seen as instances in which God, as the narrator, centres himself while putting the audience in its place. In essence, this makes the act of reading an interaction between God and the audience.