A Rhetorical Study of Quranic Rhythm In the Light of its Divineness and Uniqueness

Abstract

This research investigates the two important origins, on which the rhetorical study of Quranic rhythm is based, i.e. the divineness of Quranic rhythm and its uniqueness. The research is divided into: a preface and five sections. The preface investigates the rooting of the divineness of Quranic rhythm and its uniqueness, and the first section examines the way of naming rhetorical terms on Quranic rhythm. The second section investigates the rhetorical types according to the Quranic rhythm. The third section examines the Quranic stories, and the fourth section discusses the Quranic rhythm transcendence regarding criticism. Finally, the fifth section investigates the application of modern methods on Quranic rhythm.

The study concludes:

• The uniqueness of Quranic rhythm stems from the fact that Allah is the speaker, the fact that the Holy Quran is revealed in Arabic, where it comprises Arab's rhetorical types and styles does not eliminate its uniqueness. Instead, it still has its unique and miraculous style that made Arabs and non-Arabs powerless.
• The divineness and uniqueness of the Quranic rhythm require keeping it above any linguistic, rhetorical and literary criticism, since it is divine rhythm, and not an isolated linguistic or literary text from its author.
• Rhetorical terms, which travel from the rhetoric of human text to the rhetoric of divine rhythm, are subject to the sacredness of the Holy Quran, which comes from its divineness.
• Not all Arabic rhetoric styles are found in the Quranic rhythm. In addition, any rhetorical style in Arabic that contradicts and violates the sacredness of the Holy Quran and its uniqueness is rejected in the Holy Quran.