A Stylistic Approach to Elucidating the Literary Elegances of Sura al-Ghiama and its Interpretive Denotations

• Main Authors: Mahmood Shahbazi, Aliasghar Shahbazi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alzahra University 2016-12-01
• Series: تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث
• Subjects: sura al-ghiama; interpretive denotations; stylistics; rhetoric
• Online Access: http://tqh.alzahra.ac.ir/article_2639_651a959399b1554fc2422984ffb9a52d.pdf

The rhetoric delicacies of the Qur'an as one aspect of its inimitability, have long been studied by scholars of Quranic sciences. The study of the style of the Qur'an, as one of the rhetoric issues of Qur'anic studies is considered a newly emerged field of study , employing  the contributions of the Rhetoric  and enriched by modern criteria . <br />This article using descriptive-analytical method and based on stylistics criteria, has studied the literal beauties of the Sura al-Ghiama at four levels; the rhyme and melody, semantics, syntactic and imagery. The current study demonstrates that repetition, changing the position of a part of speech forth or back, omission and the change of addressee are  the most prominent stylistic devices of this sura. Each of these styles has contribution to the sura’s general purpose. Coherence of verses and the consistency of the melody and imagery, are other literal elegances of this blessed sura