| Part | Title (Arabic) | Content Focus | |------|----------------|----------------| | I | (المقدمة) | Methodology, definition of balāgha, criteria for Qurʾānic eloquence | | II | Al‑Ṣifat al‑Lughawiyyah (الصفات اللغوية) | Lexical richness, morphological phenomena, rare words (muḍāriʿ) | | III | Al‑Bunyan al‑Balāghī (البنية البلاغية) | Syntactic devices, ellipsis, juxtaposition, coherence (ʿitqāl) | | IV | Al‑Asbāb wa‑Al‑Āthār (الأسباب والآثار) | Rhetorical effects, emotional impact, theological implications |
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“Al‑Shāmil fī Balāghat al‑Qurʾān” is a classic work of Arabic rhetoric that examines the linguistic, stylistic, and rhetorical features that make the Qurʾān a unique masterpiece of Arabic eloquence (balāgha). Written by the renowned Andalusian scholar , the treatise gathers verses of the Qurʾān and analyses them through the lens of Arabic literary theory: ilm al‑balāgha , ilm al‑ʿarūḍ (prosody), ilm al‑maʿānī (semantics), and ilm al‑ḥadith (narrative technique). | Part | Title (Arabic) | Content Focus
The study of Quranic rhetoric ( Balagha ) is vast. Classical scholars like Al-Jurjani in Dala'il al-I'jaz and Al-Khatib al-Iskafi in Dur al-Tanzil laid the groundwork. However, a challenge faced by modern students is the scattered nature of these insights. Some books are too brief, serving only as introductions, while others are dense, classical commentaries ( Tafsir ) that require sifting through legal or historical discussions to find the rhetorical gems. The study of Quranic rhetoric ( Balagha ) is vast