Quranic Rhetoric

Course Main Objective

To study the theoretical applied nature in aspects of the Quranic inimitability and to make students taste its rhetoric versification and characteristics of its style through analyzing the Quranic verses rhetorically to unveil its aesthetics, characteristics of style and expressive secrets and hence grow their ability to deduce the rhetoric ruling from heritage books. 

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
•    1.1 Mention the Quranic inimitability-related concepts explaining the most prominent scholars of inimitability and their efforts in studying the Quranic rhetoric. 
• 2. Skills 
  
•    2.1 Analyze the Quranic verses rhetorically to unveil their aesthetics and inimitability creatively.
•    2.2 Use communication and information technology and learning e-resources in preparing the assignments and deducing the rhetoric rules from heritage books.
• 3. Values 
•   3.1 Assume individual, collective and leading responsibility upon preparing the course-related rhetoric assignments.
•   3.2 Observe the scientific and academic integrity upon performing the rhetoric assignments achieving traits of the responsible citizen.

Course Content

1- The munificent Quran imitability: definition of inimitability and miracle, aspects of imitability for the ancient and modern scholars.
2- Inimitability and theory of versification.
3- Characteristics of the Quranic style with applications.
4- Theory of figurative depiction and characteristics of simile in the Quran, metaphor in the Quran and scholars' dispute on being occurred.
5- Harmony and its forms in the munificent Quran
6- Harmony within scope of verse: (between word and its meaning and accuracy in selecting the Quranic word, between word and another word, between the meaning of the verse and its ending (rhetoric rhyme) in characteristics of its versification.
7- Harmony within scope of Surat: (between the beginning and the intended meaning, between the beginning and the ending, between name of the Surat and its intended meaning, among the verses, harmony of rhymes).
8- Harmony within the scope of full context of the Quran: (harmony among Suras, contextual harmony in the stylistic diversity, homonymy)
9- The Quranic style in episodes of a story and purposes of suras.
10- Technical characteristics of the Quranic story.

Textbook (s) 

Qesab, Waleed. On Rhetoric Inimitability of the Munificent Quran. Dar Al-Fikr, Damascus, 1st ed., 1435H. 

Course ID: ARAB 311