Vanessa De Gifis
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Exploring the subjectivity of the Quran's meaning in the world, this book analyses Quranic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the author examines Arabic documents attributed to the Abbasid Caliph al-Mamun (r. 813-833), whose rule coincided with the maturation of classical Islamic political thought and literary culture. She demonstrates how Quranic referencing functions as tropological...