In Le Coran par lui-même, Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau provides a ground-breaking analysis of the way the QurʾÄn is the architect of its own image. Far from being a flat text, the QurʾÄn uses carefully chosen vocabulary, rhetorical tools and argumentation to direct the image that listeners or readers will then have in mind. A close analysis of its self-referential vocabulary shows that the QurʾÄn describes itself as a Scripture âin a Judeo-Christian styleâ which communicative function is stressed. By a triple discourse (on divine actions, on previous Scriptures such as the Bible and on prophethood), the QurʾÄn grants itself the monopoly of divine authority through revelation and pushes the listener/reader into a decisive submission.
Winner of the I. R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2014
Anne-Sylvie Boisliveau, Ph.D. (2010), Aix-Marseille University, France, is researcher at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She studied Arabic and Islam in France, Egypt and Syria, and has specialized on the qurʾÄnic text and on early Islam.
Scholars and students in Islamic studies and most widely Middle-Eastern studies; anyone curious of new perspectives on the qurâanic text and on the way its authority was built.