Abstract
According to Muslim tradition the Koran — meaning ‘Recital’ — is the text that was delivered around the year 610 to Mohammed by the Angel Gabriel while he was asleep, or in a trance, in a cave. It is the earliest and finest work of Classical Arabic prose and is, for Muslims, the infallible word of God (Dawood 1990: 1). The text is comprised of 114 surahs or ‘books’ comprising over 400 pages of text and is rather shorter than the Bible. There are a number of translations of the Koran into English; the one I have chosen for analysis in this chapter is the fifth edition of the translation undertaken by Dawood that was first published in 1956.
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Charteris-Black, J. (2004). Metaphor in the Koran. In: Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000612_11
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