The al-Baqara crescendo : understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Reda, Nevin, 1965- author.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Advancing studies in religion ; 1 Advancing studies in religion ; 1.
Subject:	Qurʼan. -- Sūrat al-Baqarah -- Commentaries. Qurʼan. -- Sūrat al-Baqarah. Electronic books. Commentaries.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11704908

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ISBN:	9780773548879 0773548874 9780773548886 0773548882 9780773548862 0773548866 0773548858 9780773548855
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."--
Other form:	Reda, Nevin, 1965- Al-Baqara crescendo.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017] ©2017 Advancing studies in religion Advancing studies in religion ;

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. How to read the Qur'an holistically : understanding the rationale
2. Beginnning 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.

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