Dramatic Impulses in the Qu'ran: A Study in Function | ||
| journal of Human Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 21, September 2018, Pages 323-333 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Salih M. Hameed; Hadeel Aziz Mohammed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The experience provoked by any Qu'ranic discourse can work by mimesis: the text, recited or read, mirrors emotions and feelings in the Qu'ranic characters; simultaneously, it mediates similar ones to the offstage spectators be they audience or readers. This motivational impulse in the audience is a means of creating an influential role played to repulse vice and attract virtue, an idea that harmonizes with the moralization nature of the Qu'ran. As long as the impulse brings about that end, it is, therefore, dramatic.Interestingly, the terms 'dramatic' and 'impulse' in this work are used as functional and literary elements that help the fulfillment of the moralizational 'message' by transforming the feelings of the characters in the texts onto the offstage audience. Such elements are intrinsically functional, for they would help the effect operate. Nonetheless, the term 'dramatic' is not, and might not be, antonymous of 'theatrical' because a poem and a fiction can be dramatic though not necessarily theatrical. The Qu'ranic discourse, however, is by no means different, for it operates in a similar process of transformation: the readers/audience discover the meaning of the discourse by reflecting upon the action created, drawing conclusions about life, and constituting wisdom permitted by human experience. The Qur'anic discourse is 'dramatic' because "it acts out its meaning." | ||
| Keywords | ||
| dramtic; impulses; ran; discourse; characters | ||
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