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Zusatztext "I admire [El-Awa] for being one of the few contemporary young intellectuals with the ambition - and also the talent and scholarship - to force a dialogue between Western linguistics and Qur'anic hermeneutics... El-Awa's achievement in this book remains that of showing how the contemporary themes of Western linguistics are relevant to Qur'anic hermeneutics! and how an interpreter could spell out some of the complex arguments concerning the issue rather more precisely for her readers." - Abdul Rahim Afaki! Department of Philosophy! University of Karachi! Pakistan; Journal of Shi'a Islamic Studies Winter 2011! Vol IV No. 1 Informationen zum Autor Salwa El-Awa is a Lecturer in Qur'anic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, where she teaches Qur'anic hermeneutics and methods of Islamic text interpretation. Her main research interest is analysis of Qur'anic discourse. Among her recent publications are a study on repetition in the Qur'an and an Arabic book on the role of context in interpretation of Qur'anic homonyms. Klappentext Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of Qur'anic studies and linguistics. Zusammenfassung Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of Qur'anic studies and linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Historical Overview 2. The Linguistic Study of Textual Relations 3. Textual Relations and Section Division in Sura 33, (Al-Ahzab) 4. Textual Relations and Paragraph Division in Sura 75, (Al-Qiyama). Conclusion
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Salwa El-Awa is a Lecturer in Qur'anic Studies at the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, where she teaches Qur'anic hermeneutics and methods of Islamic text interpretation. Her main research interest is analysis of Qur'anic discourse. Among her recent publications are a study on repetition in the Qur'an and an Arabic book on the role of context in interpretation of Qur'anic homonyms.
