Salwa El-Awa
Egyptian-British academic
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Salwa El-Awa is an Egyptian-British linguist and Islamic scholar.[1] She is currently a lecturer of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Swansea University. [2]
Academic career
El-Awa's academic interests include Arabic linguistics, modern linguistic analysis of the Qur'an, translation studies, discourse analysis, hadith studies, and modern Islamist movements.[1][2]
Her work discusses textual relations in the Quran using modern linguistic analysis. El-Awa in her book The Qur'anic Text: Relevance, Coherence and Structure, analyzed surahs 33 and 75 using coherence theory to show that these chapters cohere and share a contextual relationship.[3]
El-Awa was previously a lecturer in Qur'anic studies at the University of Birmingham.[1][2]
Publications
Books
- (1998). Al-Wujuh Wa al-Naza’ir: dirasa fi Siyaq al-Qur’an
Articles
- Discourse Markers as Indicators of Text Structure in the multiple-topic Qur’anic suras: a meta-analysis of Q:2. Journal of Qur'anic Studies [5]
- (2019) Governance and Counter-Terrorism: engaging moderate and non-violent extremist movements in combatting Jihadist-linked Terrorism.[6]
- (2019) Discourse markers and the structure of intertextual relations of medium length Qur'anic suras: the case of Sūrat Ṭā Hā.[7]
- (2017) The Linguistic Structure in Andrew Rippin and Jawid Mujaddidi (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to the Qur'an, 2nd edition.[8]