Ahmad Alalı

Toward a Cognitive Reading of Qur’anic Parables: Nazm Theory and Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Approach in Dialogue

This study examines the cognitive and rhetorical functioning of Qur’anic parables through an interdisciplinary “Bridge Framework” established between ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī’s theory of nazm and Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The study is based on the premise that Qur’anic parables should be regarded...