The Composition of the Qur'an: Rhetorical AnalysisThe text of the Qur'an appears to many to be desperately muddled and lacking any coherence. TheComposition of the Qur'an provides a systematic presentation of the writing processes (or rhetoric) and argues that there is indeed a coherence to the Qur'anic text. Michel Cuypers shows that the ancient Semitic texts, of which the Qur'an is a part, do not obey the Greek rhetoric and that their basic principle is therefore not progressive linearity, but

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