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Prostration as Discourse: A Comparative Literary, Semiotic, and Ritual Analysis of the Action in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Prostration as Discourse: A Comparative Literary, Semiotic, and Ritual Analysis of the Action in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible./
Author:	Smith, Andrew C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	327 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-07A(E).
Subject:	Religion. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10025730
ISBN:	9781339521619

Prostration as Discourse: A Comparative Literary, Semiotic, and Ritual Analysis of the Action in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible.
Smith, Andrew C.

Prostration as Discourse: A Comparative Literary, Semiotic, and Ritual Analysis of the Action in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 327 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2016.

This dissertation views the usage of prostration in the Qur'an to understand the genesis of this phenomenon within the Islamic discursive formation. Through a literary, semiotic, and ritual analysis of the usage of the term for prostration in the Qur'an (sajada) and its derived forms, this dissertation describes how prostration is utilized in the Qur'an. The literary analysis focuses on the usage of the word in its various forms, as well as its non-denotative aspects (connotation, voice, subject, communality, directedness) and usage within micro- and macro-literary structures. The semiotic analysis overviews the objects and ideas held in close connection to prostration, making up the "semiosphere" which gives it its meaning. The ritual analysis views the prostration action in terms of genres of ritual action and the various means by which it is ritualized. The results are compared with the usage of prostration (histaha&caron;wah) in the Hebrew Bible to better bring into relief the Qur'an's usage in relationship and reaction to the Bible. In aggregate, these analyses show the centrality of the practice within the communal identity construction of the earliest Qur'anic community. Prostration is utilized as a condensing symbolic action, a ritual meant to bring together diverse Qur'anic teachings and inscribe them upon the identities and persons (both individual and communal) of the early Qur'anic community. It thus stands, not only as a means of boundary creation and maintenance, but also as a type of "scriptural" discourse, distinctly involved in the creation, maintenance, and transmission of values, norms, and cultural memory from one generation to another. Prostration, thus, serves as the discursively significant signifier of major import in the re-formation of Arabian society and culture in seventh-century Arabia.

ISBN: 9781339521619Subjects--Topical Terms:

516493
Religion.

Prostration as Discourse: A Comparative Literary, Semiotic, and Ritual Analysis of the Action in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible.
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