Todd Lawson

The Quran, Epic and Apocalypse (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation? What is it about the text that inspires such devotion and commitment in the reader/believer? Todd Lawson explores how the timeless literary genres of epic and apocalypse bear religious meaning in the Quran, communicating the sense of divine presence, urgency and truth. Grounding his approach in the universal power of story and myth, he embarks upon a fascinating inquiry into the unique power of one of the most loved, widely read and recited books in the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786072283
• Artikelnr.: 49945105

Autorenporträt

Todd Lawson is Associate Professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto. He is the author of Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
1 The Quran as Epic
2 The Quran as Apocalypse
3 An Apocalypse of Reunion: The epic of Joseph
4 Duality and Opposition: The apocalyptic substrate
5 Water and the Poetics of Apocalypse
6 Chaotic Cosmos and the Symmetry of Truth
7 Joycean Modernism in Quran and Tafsir
Conclusion: Epic and the domestication of apocalypse
 
Abbreviations
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Notes
Appendix
Bibliography
Index