"How the Quran Works: Reading Sacred Narrative focuses on Quranic narrative, and specifically, repetition in Quranic stories. This book begins its analysis looking at repetition on a large scale-structure-and moves to a small scale-root letters. The book takes a journey through the Quran, often expansive, moving from one verse to another, one story to another, focusing on narratological elements while conducting a fine reading of Quranic material in order to understand how these techniques enhance a theological agenda. It helps us to better understand particular Quranic stories, Quranic literary style and Quranic theology. Why does repetition matter? Results of repetition, as we will see, are scales, echoes, and the making of structure, all of which develop, complicate and comment on the Qurans messages. Repetition forges patterns, connections and layers of meaning throughout the Quran. It is part of the art of Quranic literary technique. In this book, I am looking at what kinds of repetition occur in Quranic stories and what purposes they serve.

This book compares different Quranic stories across chapters and revolves around the specific technique of repetition, focusing on different types of repetition throughout the book. This book is an intratextual, rhetorical, semantic and narratological analysis of the Quran. Most of the Chapters of the book examine multiple Quranic chapters, and are comparative within the Quran. Includes a number of figures and tables to explain literary techniques in detail"--.