The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira

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The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira is written by Ghassan el Masri and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004428038 (ISBN 10) and 9789004428034 (ISBN 13).

In The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qurʾān’s rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-āḫira, and concludes that the concept is polysemous, and tolerates a large variety of interpretations. The work is unique in that it draws extensively on Biblical material and presents a plethora of pre-Islamic poetry verses in the analysis of the concept.