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m613mw25t6d	Mazen Makkouk	On the Possibility of a Muslim Hermeneutic across Religion and Literature: Imagining a Relation to the World through the Qur'an and the Novel	1904		.txt	text/plain	462	9	29	To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the novel, I offer a reading of Abdul Rahman Munif's Al-Tīh, and Hoda Barakat's Malakūt Hādhihi al-Arḍ, as novels portraying the failure of nation at the individual level, and offering the reader the opportunity to construct metaphors that may both acknowledge and overcome the social divisions that led to that failure. To investigate the possibilities of metaphor for readers of the Qur'an, I first examine the pre-modern exegete Al-Biqāᶜī, and his attempt at reading cohesion in Sūrat Al-Nisā', and show that his search for cohesion through metaphors is motivated by his political perspective as well as limited by it, in that his politics do not permit him the scope to posit the world towards which his metaphors might point.	cache/m613mw25t6d.txt	txt/m613mw25t6d.txt