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Since the 1980s, scholars publishing in Western languages have increasingly learntto appreciate the literary qualities of the Qur’anic proclamations, thereby partingways with the dismissive comments made by some earlier Western readers of theIslamic scripture. At the forefront of this development stands the question of whetherQur’anic surahs can be considered to display a significant degree of thematic andliterary coherence. Do the surahs, or at least some of them, constitute compositionalunities or are they merely collocations of self-contained verses or, at most, verseclusters? The fact that much pre-modern Islamic exegesis exhibits little interest inthe surahs’ structural organisation above the verse level and often attributesindividual verses to distinct historical situations in the life of Muhammad creates acertain drift towards the latter alternative. Nonetheless, it seems that the currentconsensus among scholars based at European and North American universities haslargely been swung in favour of at least some degree of surah holism. This isundoubtedly a welcome and justified development

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Review Essay: ‘Going Round in Circles’: Michel Cuypers, <i>The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis</i>, and Raymond Farrin, <i>Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text</i>

Review Essay: ‘Going Round in Circles’: Michel Cuypers, The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical Analysis, and Raymond Farrin, Structure and Qur'anic Interpretation: A Study of Symmetry and Coherence in Islam's Holy Text