Qur'anic Apocalypse : A Reading of the Thirty-Three Last Sūrahs of the Qur'an

The present volume closes a trilogy devoted to the exegesis of the Quran analyzed according to the principles of Semitic rhetoric, a method of textual analysis developed in the field of biblical studies. It studies the shortest srahs of the Qur'an, which are traditionally dated to the beginnings of the preaching of Muammad in Mecca. The reference to the initial vision of Muammad in Srah 81, the point of departure for his career as Prophet, provides the starting point of the study of this group of srahs. The analysis shows that the redactors who assembled the textual fragments of the Qur'an into a book were guided by precise intentions. In the end, it is these intentions that the rhetorical analysis of the text enables us to discover and better understand.