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Structure and Qurʾanic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text, written by Raymond Farrin

Structure and Qurʾanic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text,... * Raymond Farrin is associate professor of Arabic and chair of the Department of Arabic and Foreign Languages at American University of Kuwait. Structure and Qurʾanic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text . usa : White Cloud Press, 2014. 168 pp., isbn : 978-1-935952-98-5. As the title implies, this book presents information related to the Qurʾan’s structural, highlights some longstanding and complex debates on the Qurʾan’s disjointedness, and presents a strong response to the critiques surrounding this. The book has six chapters, the first of which highlights the conceptual framework that will be employed to argue for Qurʾanic structural integrity, and which has the title ‘framing the Qurʾan’. The second chapter suggests how a Sura forms an individual unit; the third and fourth focus on how two adjacent chapters in the Qurʾan form an integral whole, which the author labels ‘chapter pairs’; the fifth highlights how a number of chapters can be integrated and thus represent unified groups; while finally, in chapter six, the author suggests that seven mid-length chapters (Q. 50-6) together form a ‘central group’, leading to a centre – periphery integrity through which total structural unity can be found. As http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies Brill

Structure and Qurʾanic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text, written by Raymond Farrin

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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2232-1950
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2232-1969
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10.1163/22321969-12340018
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* Raymond Farrin is associate professor of Arabic and chair of the Department of Arabic and Foreign Languages at American University of Kuwait. Structure and Qurʾanic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam’s Holy Text . usa : White Cloud Press, 2014. 168 pp., isbn : 978-1-935952-98-5. As the title implies, this book presents information related to the Qurʾan’s structural, highlights some longstanding and complex debates on the Qurʾan’s disjointedness, and presents a strong response to the critiques surrounding this. The book has six chapters, the first of which highlights the conceptual framework that will be employed to argue for Qurʾanic structural integrity, and which has the title ‘framing the Qurʾan’. The second chapter suggests how a Sura forms an individual unit; the third and fourth focus on how two adjacent chapters in the Qurʾan form an integral whole, which the author labels ‘chapter pairs’; the fifth highlights how a number of chapters can be integrated and thus represent unified groups; while finally, in chapter six, the author suggests that seven mid-length chapters (Q. 50-6) together form a ‘central group’, leading to a centre – periphery integrity through which total structural unity can be found. As

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Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies – Brill

Published: Jul 27, 2015

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