TAGS: * Language; * Metaphors and allegories; - Islam; - Poetry; Grammar; Interfaith dialogue; Quran; Style (Writings)

Abstract:

While at first glance the Qur'an appears to be chaotic in form and structure, on closer examination it reveals an interconnected logic of content, performance, imagery, grammar, and poetics. Article does not mention the Bahá'í Faith.

Coherent Chaos and Chaotic Cosmos:

The Qur'ān and the Symmetry of Truth

Todd Lawson

published in Weltkonstruktionen: Religiöse Weltdeutung zwischen Chaos und Kosmos vom Alten Orient bis zum Islam, pages 177-193

Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2010

Download: bahai-library.com/pdf/l/lawson_coherent_chaos.pdf.

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