Deletion in the verses of rebuttal in the Holy Qur’an (a textual study)

Abstract

This research deals with the study of ‘deletion’ in the verses of disavowal regarding it as one of the means that achieve consistency within the text, which is one of the textual criteria set by linguists to analyze texts. The research came to show the effect of deletion on the coherence of the Qur’anic text, which is one of its features, brevity, and deletion is a kind of brevity. It is dropping and subtracting part of the speech or dispensing with it for evidence that indicates it. The research came to show the effect of deletion on the coherence of the Qur’anic text, which is one of its features, brevity, and deletion is a kind of brevity. The research distinguishes between two types of ‘deletion’: a type of which is shown by the syntax and the omitted is determined according to what the syntax requires, and is necessitated by the location of the word. Another type is not shown by the syntax, but it is contextually inferred