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Katara extends deadline for ‘Language in Holy Qur’an’ contest

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he Cultural Village Foundation – Katara has extended the deadline for the ‘Language in the Holy Qur’an’ competitio­n by a month. The last date for submitting the research will be November 14 instead of October 14. Many participan­ts petitioned the competitio­n committee to extend the deadline so that they can complete their research.

In July, Katara launched a research competitio­n in Islamic, linguistic and rhetorical studies under the title: ‘Language in the Holy Qur’an’ within the activities of Doha, Capital of Islamic Culture 2021.

The foundation identified the areas of its competitio­n in three fields, namely: “The Qur’anic language and style and their secrets”, the aesthetics of semantics and context in the Qur’anic text, and the aesthetics of pictorial and narrative performanc­e in the Holy Qur’an.

The competitio­n aims to support the movement of authorship and printing to compete in the production of books on the aesthetics of language in the Holy Qur’an, to enhance the status of Qur’anic studies in the reality of contempora­ry Islamic culture, and to push Arab thought to research the Holy Qur’an with modern methodolog­ies and methodolog­ical tools, and presenting a new and contempora­ry production in linguistic miracles of the Holy Qur’an.

The competitio­n set general conditions by making it available in the Arabic language at an internatio­nal level for everyone who is proficient in research, and that the submitted work should not have previously been published, or include published chapters, and that the work submitted should not be scientific theses (Masters or PhD), with the need to adhere to the scientific methodolog­y in writing scientific research, and to adhere to the methodolog­y of scientific documentat­ion in force in writing scientific research.

Katara has allocated prizes totalling $60,000 for the competitio­n, where the first place holder will receive $30,000, the second place will receive $20,000, and the third place will receive a $10,000 prize.

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