Textual Relations in Quran Relevance, coherence and structure (Book report)
The title is a book by Salwa M. S. El-Awa on Quranic studies published by Routledge as one of the series of Routledge Studies in the Qur'an. The following is a report for the book.[1]
Objective of the book
Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies. The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety can be explained.
Process in the book
This book proposes a new explanation of Qur'anic text structure, arguing that the long suras have structures that are explicable within a framework for the mechanisms of human verbal communication. Through a systematic step-by-step analysis of the cognitive process involved in verbal communication and comprehension of text, this work provides interesting and useful insights into methods of analysis, mechanisms and dynamics of the Qur'anic text structure.
Linguistic theory to the Qur'an
The unique application of a sophisticated linguistic theory to the Qur'an introduces an entirely new way of reading the Qur'an and with a detailed analysis of two Qur'anic passages, the book presents a solid working out of the theory that will be accessible to both linguists and scholars of the Qur'an.
Physical features
The book was published in 2006 in English with 193 pages.