What is the valid scope of comparison with Arabic poetic preludes?
Arrangement of the Qur’an and the Rhetorical Style of Surahs
- Classifying the Qur’an as a formally metered qaṣīdah
- A rhetorical similarity in arresting attention through imagery
- Assuming evocative imagery can occur only in poetry
- Calling every Qur’anic opening a verbatim quotation from poetry