The Quran, the sacred scripture of Islam, is revered as the spoken word of God by approximately one-fifth of the world’s population. Since its inception, the power of the Quran has derived not only from its message but also from the inimitable literary style and the rhetorical impact that the Arabic scripture has on its audiences.
Divine Speech: Exploring the Quran as Literature attempts to make some of the most recent Arabic and European-language scholarship on its literary features accessible to a wider, English-speaking audience.
These features include its language and word choice, its use of figures of speech and other rhetorical devices, its manner of narrating parables and stories and the structure, coherence, and order of its “chapters”- aspects that typically remain mysterious to readers of English translations of the text.
Divine Speech furnishes its readers with a better appreciation of the Quran from a literary perspective and in the process stimulates interest in and provides tools and resources for further study of this amazing scripture.
About the Author
Nouman Ali Khan is a Muslim speaker and the CEO and founder of Bayyinah Institute, an Arabic studies educational institution in the United States. Currently, he is recognized as one of the world's most influential Muslims. Millions of viewers watch him on YouTube and thousands of students throughout the world attend his courses. His deep and profound bond with the Qur'an, is at the heart of his work and the focus of his teachings.
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Author: Nouman Ali Khan & Sharif Randhawa
Format: Hardback with jacket
Pages: 305
Publisher: Bayyinah Publications
Published: 2016
Dimensions: 16 x 24 x 2.5 cm