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Chapter 6 A Preliminary Catalogue of Qur'anic Saj? Techniques

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This essay proposes a preliminary catalogue of fifteen suggested saj? structures, with representative Qur'anic examples. The basic rules that govern Qur'anic saj? have already been carefully elucidated by Devin Stewart in a series of articles on this subject. Stewart has also provided some exploratory illustrations of where individual saj?ahs might combine to form consecutive strings of saj? units. Yet the statement of the medieval rhetorician D?iya?? al-Di?n ibn al-Athi?r (d. 637/1239) that it is only the occasional need for "brevity" (i?ja?z) and "concision" (ikhtis?a?r) that precluded the Qur'an from having been written entirely in saj? suggests that, at some point, many more of the Qur'an's rhetorical features must have been seen as having being informed by the rules and the rhythms of saj? than the current perception of Qur'anic saj? in the Western Academy might lead one to imagine.  The idea that Qur'anic saj? might in fact operate within a deliberate give and take of saj?'s three distinct parameters-end rhyme, accentual beat patterning, and grammatical parallelism-proved to be a fruitful one in categorizing a number of the passages highlighted by Ibn al-Athi?r as illustrative of the phenomenon of saj? in the Qur'an. Using this methodology it was possible to create a number of strings of consecutive saj?ahs that would otherwise have fallen outside of the parameters of saj? as it is currently understood.

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: Taylor & Francis., 2020

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52 hlm.

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English

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9780367800055

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Islam;Regional studies;The Koran

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63762

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