TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bannister,Andrew G.
TI  - An Oral-Formulaic Study of the Qurʼan
SN  - 9780739183588 (electronic bk.)
AV  - PJ6696 .B26 2014eb
U1  - 297.1/22 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Lanham
PB  - Lexington Books
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Language, style
KW  - Oral tradition in literature
KW  - Qurʼan as literature
KW  - Orality in literature
KW  - Arabic language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Qurʼan and narrative biblicist traditions -- The narratival roots of the Islamic tradition -- The development of oral literary theory -- The application of oral-formulaic theory to pre-Islamic arabic poetry -- Mapping the landscape: a computerised formulaic analysis of the Qurʼanic text -- Digging deeper: verse-level formulaic analysis -- Searching for formulaic systems -- Iblis and Adam: a comparative application of computerised and "manual" methods of formulaic analysis to the seven retellings -- Conclusion: The Qurʼan and orality -- Appendix: The Seven Iblis and Adam stories and an English translation
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