Open AccessThe Qur’an as Literature: Literary Interpretation of the Qur’an
Author(s) -
Yusuf Rahman
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of qur'an and hadith studies /journal of qur'an and hadith studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2089-3434
pISSN - 2252-7060
DOI - 10.15408/quhas.v1i1.1319
Subject(s) - literariness , interpretation (philosophy) , literature , literary science , literary criticism , literary theory , order (exchange) , literary fiction , philosophy , art , linguistics , finance , economics
This article argues that the Qur’an is, among other thing, a literature, and therefore can be approached with literary interpretation. In order to support this idea, the article starts with demonstrating the literariness of the Qur’an; showing the characteristics of literary interpretation of the Qur’an; and ends with discussing the debates on literary interpretation of the Qur’an. The approach used in this article is literary to argue for the literariness and literary interpretation of the Qur’an.