Speech Genres and Interpretation of the Qur’an
TL;DR: The authors provides an overview of the investigation of genres in Qur'anic studies to date and argues for the utility of the theory of speech genres for the interpretation of the Qur'an generally.
About: This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interpretation (philosophy).
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TL;DR: The authors traces the archetypical development of emotion from individual feeling to collective action by focusing on conversion and kinship as recorded in the Qur'an and the oldest extant biogra...
Abstract: This article traces the archetypical development of emotion from individual feeling to collective action by focusing on conversion and kinship as recorded in the Qur'an and the oldest extant biogra...
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TL;DR: In this article, the concept of the "poetic kull", a construction that is exceedingly common in the poetry of the time, but appears only very seldom in the Qur'an, is discussed.
Abstract: This chapter elaborates on the concept of the "poetic kull," a construction that is exceedingly common in the poetry of the time, but appears only very seldom in the Qur'an. Although infrequent, poetic style does occasionally show up in verses from the Qur'an, as in Q 22:27, in which a stylistic device appears which is found most typically in early Arabic poetry. Early Arabic poetry is in its totality more important for Qur'anic studies than has generally been acknowledged, primarily because the corpus of poetry forms an important background against which the Qur'an emerged. The chapter ventures a further interpretation of the much discussed verse from the Surah of the Poets, Q 26:225. Finally, knowledge of early Arabic poetry allows us to recognize in Q 52:31 an ironically used quotation from poetry that is put into the mouth of the opponents of Muhammad. Keywords: early Arabic poetry; Muhammad; poetic kull; Q 22:27; Q 26:225; Q 52:31; Qur'an
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TL;DR: A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that verbal art provides a central dynamic force in shaping linguistic structure and linguistic study as discussed by the authors. But poetics has often been marginalized by anthropologists and linguists who believe that aesthetic uses of language are merely parasitic upon such "core" areas of linguistics as phonology, syntax, and semantics, or upon such anthropological fields as economy and social organization.
Abstract: Scholars have vacillated for centuries between two opposing assessments of the role of poetics in social life. A long tradition of thinking about language and society argues that verbal art provides a central dynamic force in shaping linguistic structure and linguistic study. This position emerges clearly in the writings of Vico, Herder, and von Humboldt; attention from Sapir, the Russian "Formalists," and members of the Prague School to the role of poetics contributed to the development of performance studies and ethnopoe tics in the last two decades. Nonetheless, poetics has often been marginalized by anthropologists and linguists who believe that aesthetic uses of language are merely parasitic upon such "core" areas of linguistics as phonology, syntax, and semantics, or upon such anthropological fields as economy and social organization. The balance between these two views shifted in favor of poetics in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a new emphasis on performance directed attention away from study of the formal patterning and symbolic content of texts to the emergence of verbal art in the social interaction between performers and
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TL;DR: In this article, the search for the thematic and strucutral attributes which distinguish one form from another has continuously occupied folklorists who aspire to establish research in this field on a systematic basis.
Abstract: Was ist eine Sage?" This question, raised by Carl Herman Tillhagen a few years ago,1 is equally applicable to other folklore genres. The search for the thematic and strucutral attributes which distinguish one form from another has continuously occupied folklorists who aspire to establish research in this field on a systematic basis. Thus, Alan Dundes states that "the problem...of defining folklore boils down to the task of defining exhaustively all the forms of folklore. Once this has been accomplished, it will be possible to give an enumerative definition of folklore. However, thus far in the illustrious history of the discipline, not so much as one genre has been completely defined."2 Disciplines Folklore | Near and Middle Eastern Studies This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/nelc_papers/143
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