The Qur’an as Literature: Literary Interpretation of the Qur’an

Abstract

This article argues that the Qur’an is, among other thing, a literature, and therefore can be approached with literary interpretation. In order to support this idea, the article starts with demonstrating the literariness of the Qur’an; showing the characteristics of literary interpretation of the Qur’an; and ends with discussing the debates on literary interpretation of the Qur’an. The approach used in this article is literary to argue for the literariness and literary interpretation of the Qur’an.