Textual Relations in the Qur'an adopts a new methodology for reading Qur'anic texts through the use of Relevance Theory in linguistics and the analysis of the complex relations in the Qur'anic suras. This book shows the apparent thematic dis-connectivity in the long Qur'anic suras and the context and structure of the Qur'an are reread and explained in terms of a contemporary methodology to help readers see how they operate in the cognitive process by which meaning is created.
Textual Relations in the Qur'an provides:

· A historical overview of the previous attempts to answer the question of coherence in the Qur'an.
· An introduction to the linguistic theory used in the analysis
· How the analysis can be used to explain the Qur'anic textual relations
· Two detailed studies of two quite different Qur'anic suras, each with a different set of textual problems to highlight different features of the methodology

This book is a new development in Qur'anic studieswhich brings to the field of Qur'anic study the fruits of linguistics and the scientific study of human language, providing a systematic analysis of the Qur'anic suras. This book is essential reading for those with research interests in Islamic or Qur'anic studies, Linguistic or Relevance theory applications and Arabic Linguistics.