Bottom line: The Quran is a book of poetry and nothing more. Muhammad was a crafty poet and nothing more. Andy Bannister provides the first thorough analysis of the Quran studying its formulation through oral devices, and has concluded Muhammad used rhetorical devices common to poets of the time, while borrowing material from various sources to compose his poems (aka The Quran). That is why when one reads the Quran, one senses its disconnect from one sentence to the next, because it is not written as a work of history or divine revelation, but merely poetry. amazon/Oral-Formulaic-Study-Quran-Andrew-Bannister/dp/0739183575/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1411184170&sr=1-5
Posted on: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:40:19 +0000
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