1. Structural Dividers in the Qur’an: Preliminary Remarks and Suggestions for Supplementary Reading
Marianna Klar
Part I. Competing Structures: Sūrat Āl ʿImrān, Sūrat al-ʿAlaq, and Sūrat Maryam
2. The Poetics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān’s Narrative Structure (Q 3)
Nevin Reda
3. Beyond Ring Composition: A Comparison of Formal Features in Sūrat al-ʿAlaq (Q 96) and Bavli Bava Batra 8a
Holger Zellentin
4. The Miraculous Birth Stories in the Interpretation of Sūrat Maryam (Q 19): An Exercise in a Discourse Grammar of the Qur’an
A.H. Mathias Zahniser
Part II. Small-Scale Structural Markers and Connectives
5. Oaths in the Qur’an: A Structural Marker Under the Impact of Knowledge Change
Nora K. Schmid
6. A Preliminary Catalogue of Qur’anic Sajʿ Techniques: Beat Patterning and Parallelism, and Rhyme
Marianna Klar
7. Discourse Markers and the Structure of Intertextual Relations in Medium-Length Qur’anic Surahs: The Case of Sūrat Ṭāhā (Q 20)
Salwa El-Awa
Part III. The Question of Composite Surahs
7. Introductory Oaths and the Question of Composite Surahs
Devin J. Stewart
8. Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections
Muhammad Abdel Haleem
9. Towards a Redactional History of the Medinan Qur’an: A Case Study of Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4) and Sūrat al-Māʾidah (Q 5)
Nicolai Sinai
Biography
Marianna Klar is currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at Oxford University, Senior Research Associate at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies, SOAS, University of London. Her publications focus on the Qur’an’s structure, its narratives, and its literary context. She has also worked extensively on tales of the prophets within the medieval Islamic historiographical tradition and on Qur’anic exegesis.
