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The Question of the Discontinuity of the Qur’anic Text The Question of the Discontinuity of the Qur’anic Text
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The Order of the Suras in the Qur’an The Order of the Suras in the Qur’an
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The Coherence of the Text According To the Classical Tradition: Naẓm and ʿIlm al-Munāsaba The Coherence of the Text According To the Classical Tradition: Naẓm and ʿIlm al-Munāsaba
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The Unity of the Text by Modern Muslim Commentators The Unity of the Text by Modern Muslim Commentators
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The Structure of the Qur’anic Text, According to Recent Research The Structure of the Qur’anic Text, According to Recent Research
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Semitic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis Semitic Rhetoric and Rhetorical Analysis
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Bibliography Bibliography
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19 Qur’anic Syntax
Get accessMichel Cuypers Doctor of Persian Literature (University of Teheran, 1983), is a member of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies (Cairo), specializing in the exegesis of the Qur’an and the text’s composition according to the theory of Semitic rhetoric. His publications include The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur’an (Convivium Press, 2009), and The Composition of the Qur’an (Bloomsbury, 2015), and A Qur’ānic Apocalypse: A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Sūrahs of the Qur’ān (International Qur’ānic Studies Association, 2018).
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Published:08 June 2020
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Abstract
In this study, ‘syntax’ means the way the diverse parts of a sura or diverse suras are connected between each other to compose coherent sets with semantic unity. The classical Islamic tradition (al-Zarkāshī, al-Suyūṭī, al-Biqāʿī …) has partially studied it under the titles of naẓm, ‘composition (of the text)’, and ʿilm al-munāsaba, ‘the science of correlation (between verses or suras)’. Some modern Muslim exegetes (Amīn Aḥsan Iṣlāḥī, Saʿīd Ḥawwā) pushed the syntax analysis further, in an original way. Orientalists (Neuwirth, Crapon de Caprona, Salwa El-Awa, Robinson, Zahniser) have been interested in the syntax of the text since 1980. Cuypers elaborates on the Semitic rhetoric, discovered in biblical studies but perfectly applicable to the Qur’anic text.
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