Author

• Amir Zowqi

Abstract

The arrangement of the verses in each Surah of the Holy Quran was an issue ‎of inquiry among ‎Islamic scholars in different ages of Islamic period. The ‎first scholars spoke of "Nazm" and ‎‎"Munasaba" and the recent ones ‎introduced the ideas of "the Surah as unity" and "the thematic ‎unity of the ‎Surahs".
In this article after a quick look at these attempts, some of  thenew ‎theories ‎of text analysis and their theoretical bases have been mentioned and ‎their potential of explaining ‎of arrangement of the verses has been ‎examined, considering that the main function of the Holy ‎Quran is guidance ‎and remembrance. Applying "cohesion theory" and "relevance theory", "the ‎‎referential model" is proposed for description of the arrangement of the ‎verses in a Surah and is ‎examined in a long Surah‎.

Keywords

• Surah
• the arrangement of the verses
• textual cohesion
• cohesion ‎‎theory
• relevance theory
• ‎referential model‎.‎