Arabic, Qur'an, and Poetic License by Shady Hekmat Nasser ISBN 9781003501565, 9781032818276, 9781032818269, 1003501567, 1032818271, 1032818263 instant download

Arabic, Qur'an, and Poetic License by Shady Hekmat Nasser ISBN 9781003501565, 9781032818276, 9781032818269, 1003501567, 1032818271, 1032818263 instant download

"This book studies the similarities between the Qur'ān, ancient Arabic poetry, and Arabic grammar before they became standardized and independent genres of one another. Of central relevance is the relationship between the Qur'ān and Arabic poetry, and how Muslim scholars defined this relationship based on a formulaic structural approach rather than a thematic and motif-oriented one. The book aims to reposition the so-called non-standard usages of Arabic vernaculars, non-canonical readings of the Qur'ān, and unusual grammatical structures in ancient poetry at the heart of the Arabic-Islamic tradition. The book deals with different theological, legal, and social controversies regarding the proper recitation of the Qur'ān and its individuation from poetry and other verbal arts. For the first time, this study offers a comprehensive categorization of unusual grammatical structures in both the Qur'ān and ancient Arabic poetry, which Arab grammarians classified as poetic license. The close affinity between the linguistic styles of the Qur'ān and ancient Arabic poetry suggests that the Qur'ān was a form of ancient Arabic poetry. To individuate the Qur'ān, Muslim scholars put in place various theological and legal restrictions for the proper recitation of the Qur'ān, the most important of which was tajwīd (Qur'ānic recitation). The book will interest students and scholars of Qur'ānic and Islamic studies, as well as those researching Arabic poetry and grammar"--