The Composition of Surat Maryam: Rhetorical Analysis (Routledge Studies in the Qur'an) - Softcover

Cuypers, Michel; Zahniser, A.h. Mathias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032853611 ISBN 13: 9781032853611

Verlag: Routledge, 2026

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This book studies the composition or structure of Surat Maryam – the 19th sura of the Qur’an – according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric.

Surat Maryam has, in recent decades, been the subject of numerous studies by scholars of Islamology and Qur’anology. The general structure of the sura, however, is not unanimously recognized among researchers, due to certain inconsistencies in rhyme and content of the text. This book takes a literary approach to the Qur’an, following the rules of a method well known in Qur’anic studies – rhetorical analysis. The book first analyses the sura as it appears in the Qur’an today in the Muslim world, before focusing on a large section which shows a great literary unity, isolatable from the rest of the sura. Through the assiduous and detailed reading of the sura, its complex structure is gradually revealed. Other contexts are also considered: first, that of other suras of the Qur’an, if they can shed light on the meaning of the sura under study; and second, that of the Bible or the Jewish and Christian apocrypha.

The book will be of particular interest to scholars working in Qur’anic studies and Biblical studies, and those focused on Christian–Muslim relations.

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Michel Cuypers is a member researcher at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo. He specialized in the study of the composition (na?m) of the Qu’ran and received an international prize for his book The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur’an (2009).

A.H. Mathias Zahniser, Ph.D., 1973, a student of Georg Krotkoff, completed his dissertation on al-Jahiz's Kitab al-'Uthmaniyya, and has taught at Central Michigan University, Asbury Seminary and Greenville College, where he is Scholar-in-Residence.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032853611
• ISBN 13: 9781032853611
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Deutschland