Review essay: Going Round in Circles': Michel Cuypers, The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis, and Raymond Farrin, Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text
Since the 1980s, scholars publishing in Western languages have increasingly learnt to appreciate the literary qualities of the Qur’anic proclamations, thereby parting ways with the dismissive comments made by some earlier Western readers of the Islamic scripture. At the forefront of this development...
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Edinburgh University Press
2017
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