ABSTRACT

The Qur’an is a work of context. It was revealed (in)to the tradition in form and content that established complex and dynamic relations with tradition in the most comprehensive sense of the word. One of the questions that had never ceased to occupy those studying the Oriental-Islamic culture is the relationship between the Qur’an and art, particularly between the Qur’an and poetry. This chapter shows how the power of the Qur’anic Text manifests itself in Arabic literature and in the entire Arabic-Islamic culture, and that the spirit of the entire Arabic-Islamic tradition should be regarded as the “Universe of the sacred Text”.