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