Examining the Elements of Novel in the Story of the Holy Quran

Abstract

This study aimed at portraying elements of the novel in Quranic stories.Both methods ofcontent analysis and descriptive and analytical are followed in conducting this study to explain to what extent the Quranic stories portray the elements of the novel. The population of the study was specialists, who were on work in Sudanese universities.Certain stories of the Glorious Book have been investigated to illustrate the issue in the question. These stories are Story of prophets Ibrahim(Abraham),Yusuf ( Josef ), and Musa ( Moses ) peace be upon them. After a thorough exploration of the said stories, it became clear a good host of literary images can directly be traced and understood. The researcher narrowed down his scope of investigation of the three mentioned stories, however There are very interesting manifestations of literary contents that can be spotted across the Holy book. The study includes some questions and hypotheses. Aquestionnaire was used as supportive tool in the data collection. The validity and reliability of the atools were checked. The statistical package of analyzing social sciences (SPSS) was used for obtaining the results. The most important results obtained indicated that the three mentioned stories have the elements of novel such as theme, setting characterization ,,,etc, they are in part five. But the researcher sees the scope is still wide and in need of more researching. The study is concluded by recommendations, the most important one is:Islamic research institutions should allocate budgets for Quranic literary research. There are suggestions for further researches to be conducted in the future, the most important one is: Investigating the characteristics of the short story in the stories of the Holy Quran. These and the rest of srecommendations are in chapter five