Conjunction in the glorious Qur'an

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The study deals with clarifying the phenomenon of conjunction in the Glorious Qur'an which plays a major role in creating textual cohesion as it works at syntactic and semantic levels.

The study also reveals its contribution in showing and understanding the Qur'anic miracle through making a relationship between successive events.

The problem is represented by the following questions: What are conjunctions? Why is a certain conjunction used rather than another? and Are there differences between conjunctions? Can they all achieve textual cohesion? and Do they help the readers in understanding the Glorious Qur'an? In addition, the study faces the problem of rendering some ayahs in which some conjunctive elements don't appear or substituted with other elements.

The study aims at showing to which extent can conjunction create cohesion in the Qur'anic text through linking the near sentences with the distant ones to reach to the whole text, and to which extent it can help in understanding the Glorious Qur'an where it is not an easy task for those who are not specialized in Arabic and Qur'anic studies.

The study depends on two hypotheses: conjunction achieves texture by working syntactically and semantically in tying sentences even the distant and separated ones, provided that there is a suitability between the preceding sentence and the following one.

There are various aspects of conjunction in the Glorious Qur'an that cannot be realized easily.

The adopted model in the study is Halliday and Hassan (1976) who suggest the basis of cohesive devices and their types.

The study consists of fifth sections.

The first section is introduction which is about the text and the way of creating texture through cohesive devices.

The second section deals with the concept of conjunction.

The third section focuses on the function of conjunction.

The fourth section sheds the light on types of conjunction with examples from the Glorious Qur'an that show semantic and rhetorical uses.

The fifth section is a conclusion that contains findings.