ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the components of an argument, the nature of the deductive argument, the no-main-verb nominal statement in different Qur'anic argumentative texts, the mood and topos in an argumentative text, the persuasive techniques in Qur'anic argumentation, and the types of Qur'anic argumentative texts. Moods are important constituents in an argument because the mood expresses the text producer's performative intent and how the thought of the statement is expressed. The chapter discusses the argumentation structure of Qur'anic discourse, the protagonist and the antagonist are God and the disbelievers. The linguistic approach in Qur'anic exegesis accounts for the pragmatic functions of semantic syntax in Arabic discourse. The chapter is concerned with the argumentative text which represents an event of a difference of opinion where one discussant puts forward an opinion and the other discussant calls that idea into question, the fallacy of begging the question.
