Project Details
Narrative Aesthetics of Legal Communication in the Qur’an and in Premodern Islam (B08*)
Subject Area
Islamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
Term
since 2023
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405662736
The project is dedicated to narrative aesthetics in premodern Islamic 'legal stories'. It focusses on the Qur’an and on stories (qisas, sg. Qissa) about legal procedures in historical, exegetical, and philological texts (7th-10th centuries). Legal communication through narratives is understood as a socially relevant layering of acts in which aesthetic reflection is articulated. The project examines how the aesthetics of legal communication is simultaneously constituted through the legal practices and procedures that are being narrated (heterological dimension) and the practice of narrating about legal procedures (autological dimension).
DFG Programme
Collaborative Research Centres
Subproject of
SFB 1391:
Different Aesthetics
Applicant Institution
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Project Head
Professor Dr. Holger Zellentin