The Qur'an by Sinai Nicolai;

Author:Sinai, Nicolai;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Figure 14 Meccan and Medinan passages in surah 22 according to Nöldeke and Schwally (passages likely to be Meccan are highlighted in grey)

That Nöldeke and Schwally’s redactional dissection of Q 22 is plausible also follows from the fact that the mean verse length of the putatively Meccan sections by themselves only amounts to 95.07 transcription letters, which is markedly lower than that of the entire surah (102.54) and located in the same range as many other late Meccan surahs such as Q 16, 41, and 11. By contrast, the mean verse length of only those portions of Q 22 that Figure 14 identifies as Medinan is 119.33 transcription letters, roughly equal to that of Q 59.60 What appears to have taken place, then, is that pre-existing Meccan material was used to pad out a number of programmatic Medinan passages to do with the demarcation of the Qur’anic Believers from Jews and Christians, with Abraham and the Meccan sanctuary, and with the demand for militant action against the Unbelievers occupying the sanctuary. The result is a surah whose conspicuous centrepiece, like that of surah 2, is a section about Abraham. Furthermore, as in surah 2, the interlacing of textual units dating from different periods of the Qur’an’s genesis was not undertaken haphazardly, since surah 22’s Medinan portions sometimes pick up the diction of earlier Meccan components.61 Many of the topics broached in the surah’s Medinan layer are then climactically recapped in the composition’s final verse (v. 78). The outcome is a text that includes a significantly higher amount of Medinan material than the Medinan dabs gracing surahs 6, 7, and 16: if surah 22 is divided up as proposed in Figure 14, the Meccan layer comes to c. 5,100 transcription letters and the Medinan one to c. 2,800.

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