The Qur'an Heard: Sound Poetics in Three American Sermons [Hardcover]

1.? Introduction: On Sound;?2. pitch;?3. emanet;?4. habits of the heart;?Addendum: Sarah Sayeed, Moving From Walls to Bridges;?References;?Index

This book provides a new exploration of aural meaning and social relevance, within Islamic teaching and will be of particular interest to those studying or researching the significance of scripture, and the Quran in particular.

For many Muslims, there is an inseparable connection between sound and meaning, particularly when it comes to Islamic verse and scripture. This provides fertile ground for a comparative study across traditions and forms.?

Timur Yuskaev offers a meditation on the Quran and human sensibilities, heard together, in American Muslim sermons. Foregrounding sound, poetry and music, it is a cultural anthropology of the Quran, carried out in conversation with colleagues in multiple disciplines, including Religions in America, Quranic, Islamic, Memory, Communication, and Sound Studies. The author draws upon the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Charles Long, Mary Douglas and many others to hear mysticism in a homiletic symphony by Warith Deen Mohammed, to sense the experience of the covenant in a three-minute, ribbon-cutting speech by Aras Konjhodzic, and to appreciate the Quranic musicality of a down-to-earth interfaith address by Sarah Sayeed.?

A creative guide to an organic engagement with texts, this book will be of particular interest to those studying scriptures and the Quran.

This work gives voice to our lived experience as Muslims living in the West.

Aisha al-Adawiya, Women in Islam, Inc.

The Qur'an Heard is a marvel of interdisciplinary finesse. At once panoramic and ethnographic, this sensory monograph is also critical and historical, a call to listen and act for nonl#'