1st Edition
The Composition of Sūrat Maryam Rhetorical Analysis
1. General outline of Sūrat Maryam 2. First sequence (1–63), Recollection of God’s mercy towards his prophets 3. Second sequence (64–74), Angels comfort Muhammad 4. Third sequence (75–98), Eschatology and polemic on divine filiation 5. Structure of the whole sūra (1–98) 6. A holy history of Biblical prophets (1–74) 7. General conclusion
Biography
Michel Cuypers is a member researcher at the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies, Cairo. He specialized in the study of the composition (naẓm) of the Qu’ran and received an international prize for his book The Banquet: A Reading of the Fifth Sura of the Qur’an (2009).
A.H. Mathias Zahniser, Ph.D., 1973, a student of Georg Krotkoff, completed his dissertation on al-Jāhiz's Kitāb al-'Uthmāniyya, and has taught at Central Michigan University, Asbury Seminary and Greenville College, where he is Scholar-in-Residence.
