Stylistics Studies of the Holy Quran

Stylistics Studies of the Holy Quran

Dramatic capabilities of Quranic stories

Document Type : Scientific

Authors
Ahmad Jolaei 1
Ahmad Noordaryaee 2
1 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Art and Architecture
2 Master of Performing Arts Directing, Tehran School of Art and Architecture
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Abstract
Although in this article, dramatic capacities of Holy Qur'an has been investigated; But the author's perception and view of the Qur'an is not dramatic and purely something entertaining. Since The Qur'an has been sent as a divine miracle of the Prophet Muhammad with a very rich and valuable contents to guide humanity toward redemption; then a large part of it is consist of stories about other Prophets, ancient narratives and etc to educate people in path of salvation and the fabric of these tales have dramatic elements.
Drama has also been presented as one of the phenomena of human's thought with purpose of helping human kind even more in path of redemption and salvation. A show  or drama, in order to be believable through action, seeks to objectify the events that take place during the course of the story and in this process, the dramatic elements manifest themselves.
One of the oldest and most authoritative theories related to the art of drama is Aristotle's theory which is mentioned in Poetics book. This article tries to evaluate the examples of stories and narratives of the Qur'an that can be demonstrated based on Aristotle's theory of imitation of the orthodox structure. in this theory, the six components of drama art are as followed: View perspective, Character, Thematic legend, Speech, song and Thought.
Keywords
Qur'an
story
drama
Aristotle
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Stylistics Studies of the Holy Quran
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 5
Second-year, second issue / consecutive: 5 / autumn and winter of 2019
February 2020
Pages 32-43

  • Receive Date 25 May 1399
  • Revise Date 24 September 1399
  • Accept Date 07 October 1399
  • Publish Date 01 January 2024