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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Language, style [Browse]
• Oral tradition in literature [Browse]
• Qurʼan as literature [Browse]
• Orality in literature [Browse]
• Arabic language—Rhetoric [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index.

Contents

• The Qurʼan and narrative biblicist traditions
• The narratival roots of the Islamic tradition
• The development of oral literary theory
• The application of oral literary theory to pre-Islamic Arabic poetry
• Mapping the landscape: a computerized formulaic analysis of the Qurʼanic text
• Digging deeper: verse-level formulaic analysis
• Searching for formulaic systems
• Iblis and Adam: a comparative application of computerized and 'manual' methods of formulaic analysis to the seven retellings
• Conclusion: the Qurʼan and orality
• Appendix 1: The seven Iblis and Adam stories and an English translation.

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ISBN

• 9780739183571 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739183575 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013050868

OCLC

865536783

Other standard number

• 40023903571

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