The Exceptional Qurʾān : : Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book / / Johanne Christiansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Christiansen, Johanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Thought ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter One. Linguistic and Textual Features of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān --; Chapter Two. Direct Legal Exceptions in the Qurʾān – An Overview --; Chapter Three. Recurring Legal Arguments of Exception and Flexibility in the Qurʾān --; Chapter Four. Legal Hypotheticals with a Dispensatory Aim in the Qurʾān --; Chapter Five. Legal Exceptions in the Biblical Traditions and Late Antiquity --; Chapter Six. A System Theoretical Approach to the Qurʾān --; Chapter Seven. Balancing the Qurʾānic System – The Use of Exceptive Language as a Sign of Flexibility --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463242893; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754193; 9783110753974; 9783110743302
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463242893
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Johanne Christiansen.

The Exceptional Qurʾān: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam’s Holy Book is a synchronic, theoretical study of the Qurʾānic complex of exception and flexibility. Through analyses of rhetorical devices, including direct exceptions, recurring standardized arguments with a dispensatory aim, and modifying hypotheticals within the Qurʾān’s legal discourse, the author argues that this complex seems to be – if not entirely unique – articulated in a new and deliberate manner as compared to previous scriptures: The Qurʾān continuously negotiates a balance between strictness and leniency, between principle and dispensation. Joining its philological results with the system theoretical framework of anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport, The Exceptional Qurʾān considers how such rhetorical strategies contributed to the systemic long-term durability of the Qurʾān, becoming the successful founding document of a religious community and discursive tradition.