TY - BOOK AU - Reda,Nevin TI - The al-Baqara crescendo: understanding the Qurʼanʼs style, narrative structure, and running themes T2 - Advancing studies in religion SN - 9780773548879 AV - BP128.17 U1 - 297.1/22721 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Montreal, Kingston, London, Chicago PB - McGill-Queen's University Press KW - Qurʼan KW - Sūrat al-Baqarah KW - Commentaries KW - fast KW - RELIGION / Islam / General KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "This book is a study of the poetics of Qurʼanic narrative, specifically the poetics of Surat al-Baqara, the second and longest sura in the Qurʼan. It argues that the sura, which has often been dismissed by Orientalist critics as a jumbled collection of unrelated material, can be appreciated as a coherent composition by approaching it as an oral text, that is, by paying attention to oral structural markers such as repetition."-- UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1453395 ER -