ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between the surah titles and the mediation of meaning as a structural component of Quranic semiology. The terminology of sign in the Quran therefore develops as a complex construct of empirical experience, divine signification and historiograpic record of Islamic prophethood. Focalization is a technical term, first applied by Grard Genette as a distinction between the narrator and the perspective of a text. In addition, Arabic literary method affirms the relationship between introductory imagery and meaning, as was shown for the relationship between nsib and the Quran's language of sign. The feature of substantivization in the Arabic language illustrates the findings by Hao Zhang and Rumjahn Hoosain discussed above that a title consisting of a substantive verb is especially suited to thematic inference within a text, by drawing multiple references into a single designation.
