Qur'ānic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur'an as a literary, religious and oral text that affects its audience. She looks at how Qur'anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen. Ozgur Alhassen argues that, in the Qur'an, some narrative features that are otherwise puzzling can be seen as instances in which God, as the narrator, centres himself while putting the audience in its place. In essence, this makes the act of reading an interaction between God and the audience.

Author: Leyla Ozgur Alhassen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 01/26/2023
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.39d
ISBN13: 9781474483186
ISBN10: 1474483186
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | Koran & Sacred Writings
- Literary Criticism | Ancient and Classical
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Religion

About the Author

Leyla Ozgur Alhassen is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011, focusing on Arabic literature. Dr Ozgur Alhassen has published articles in journals such as Religion and Literature, Religion and the Arts, Comparative Islamic Studies, The Muslim World and Journal of Qur'anic Studies.