The Poetic Qur'an: Studies on Qur'anic Poeticity

by Thomas Hoffmann and Professor Dr Thomas Hoffmann PhD

The general topic of this study is the literary status and function of the Qur 'an, but the specific topic is its poetic status and function. Though not poetry in the strict Arabian and Islamic sense, it nonetheless displays and foregrounds several textual and pragmatic features, which are associated with decidedly poetic framing devices. Such poetic devices comprise, among others, various forms of recurrence, techniques of defamiliarization, semantic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447055154
• ISBN13: 9783447055154
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.6"