Al-Baqara crescendo : understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes, The
Commentaries
McGill-Queen's University Press
2017
EISBN 9780773548855
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.
"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."--
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.
"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."--
