Qur'ānic Rhetorical Questions: Their Identification and Communicative Functions

This article presents a grammatical framework to evaluate rhetorical questions in the Qur'ān. It is shown that the context of a rhetorical question implies its own answer, which is precisely what prevents the addressee from taking the question literally. Rhetorical questions are also treated as...

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Main Author: Dror, Yehudit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Peeters 2021
In: Semitica
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Pages: 377-408
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
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