ABSTRACT
LAST TIME I DISCUSSED the possibility that the expression "In the Name of God," in every sura that it heads, is syntactically connected to the sura itself, or to the first part of its subject matter. For example, in the Sura of Praise, the meaning that emerges is "praise in, or by, the name of God." The same expression, then, has a different meaning in each sura, for in each case it relates to the particular topic that opens the sura.
