‘Arabic, Quran, and Poetic License’ Published by Routledge

IQNA – The book “Arabic, Quran, and Poetic License: Reciting the Word of God” has been recently published by the Routledge.

Authored by Shady Hekmat Nasser, it is part of the Routledge Studies in the Quran series.

In its examination of critical issues in the scholarly study of the Quran and its commentaries, this series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism.

The contemporary relevance of the Quran in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world, according to routledge.com.

The book “Arabic, Quran, and Poetic License: Reciting the Word of God” examines the similarities between the Quran and ancient Arabic poetry, analyzed through the framework of Arabic grammar prior to their standardization and subsequent development into distinct genres.

Of central relevance is the relationship between the Quran and Arabic poetry, and how Muslim scholars defined this relationship based on a formulaic structural approach rather than a thematic and motif-oriented one. The book aims to reposition the so-called non-standard usages of Arabic vernaculars, non-canonical readings of the Quran, and unusual grammatical structures in ancient poetry at the heart of the Arabic-Islamic tradition.

Source: routledge.com