The Effect of Repetition on the Cohesion of the Verses of al-Adhwāʾ and al-Dhawāt in the Holy Qur’an

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze repetition as a means of textual cohesion in the verses of "Al-Adhwa'" and "Al-Dhawat" by tracing various repetitive patterns (the same word, synonymy, syntactic parallelism, and the general word) and analyzing their impact on the coherence and cohesion of the text. It proceeds from the hypothesis that repetition in these verses was not merely verbal redundancy, but rather a functional tool serving rhetorical and semantic purposes, contributing to the emphasis and consolidation of meaning, and creating an interconnected linguistic fabric that achieves harmony among textual units. The study concluded that repetition effectively contributed to achieving textual cohesion at both the formal and semantic levels by linking parts of the text and enhancing their interconnectedness. The study also revealed that parallel structures and general words played a significant role in directing meaning and unifying semantic fields within the Qur'anic text. The study recommended expanding Qur'anic textual studies concerned with manifestations of lexical cohesion, and benefiting from modern text linguistics approaches in uncovering the rhetorical and semantic dimensions of the Qur'anic text.