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. CONTENTS 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

Book Information
ISBN 9781786072276
Author Todd Lawson
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oneworld Publications
Publisher Oneworld Publications