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Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

By: Issa J Boullata

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Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

By: Issa J Boullata

This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one historical period of its revelation; these studies concentrate on the analysis of its language, its style, its structural composition, its aesthetic characteristics, its rhetorical devices, its imagery, and the impact of these elements and their significance. Part two includes studies on individual suras of the Qur'an, each of which focuses on the sura's literary elements and how they produce meaning; each also explores the structure of this meaning and the coherence of its effect. Part three includes studies on Muslim appreciations of the literary aspects of the Qur'an in past generations and shows how modern linguistic, semantic, semiotic, and literary scholarship can add to their contributions.

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Routledge

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1136117148

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9781136117145

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata

By: Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq

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Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

Essays in Honor of Professor Issa J. Boullata

By: Issa J. Boullata,Kamal Abdel-Malek,Wael B. Hallaq

In this collection of essays, various manifestations of traditional as well as modern and postmodern themes and techniques in Arabic literature are explored. For the first time the tripartite concepts of tradition, modernity, and postmodernity in Arabic literary works are analyzed in one volume.

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440

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BRILL

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9004117636

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9789004117631

True Arab Love

Stories

By: Issa J. Boullata

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True Arab Love

Stories

By: Issa J. Boullata

Abdallah's encounter with the military governor on the eve of his departure for America opens this collection of stories, and Khalil al-Ibrahami's moving search for his lost fiancée in Jerusalem closes the collection. In between, Issa J. Boullata's stories show what it's like to be an Arab from Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, or Egypt making a new life as an immigrant in Canada or the United States. This is what it is, to be displaced. This is what it is to leave your home and start over in a new country.

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1988130093

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9781988130095

Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought

By: Issa J. Boullata

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Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought

By: Issa J. Boullata

This book focuses on contemporary Arab thought during the past twenty years, especially since the 1967 Arab defeat in the Six Day War. Well-known Arab writers are studied, and their unprecedented and anguished exercise of self-examination and self-criticism is explored. A number of Arab thinkers are presented for the first time in English. Here is an account of some of the most recent intellectual trends in the Arab world. As the writers grapple with the Arab desire for social change, with ideas of freedom and equality and social justice, and with the problem of accommodating Arab culture to modern times, their will to preserve their national identity is displayed. The role played by Islam in the current Arab discourse is analyzed as Arab intellectuals creatively interpret their present predicament in order to make it meaningful in the present day. Arab thought is seen here to be in crisis as it reflects this reality and questions the legitimacy of Arab political regimes. Much of the present turmoil in the Arab world can be better understood in light of this insightful treatment of contemporary Arab thinkers because it shows how the Arabs themselves feel, what they think about their own contemporary life, and how they envision their future.

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219

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SUNY Press

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0791401952

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9780791401958

Book's by Issa J. Boullata

Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in Arabic Literature

True Arab Love

True Arab Love

Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought

Trends and Issues in Contemporary Arab Thought

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