New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics

This book provides a comprehensive account of the recurrent syntactic, stylistic, morphological, lexical, cultural, and phonological voids that are an iceberg looming in the horizon of Qur'anic genre. It is an invaluable resource for contrastive linguistics, translation studies, and corpus linguistics.

Hussein Abdul-Raof is Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies, Department of English, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia

Introduction 1 Syntactic Structures of Qur'anic Discourse 2 Semantically-Oriented Stylistic Shift 3 Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Qur'anic Lexical Items 4 Rhetorical Analysis of Qur'anic Discourse 5 Cyclical Modification in Qur'anic Discourse 6 Applied Semantics of Qur'anic Discourse