Discourse Genres in Rokuat (Case Study of Surah Al-Baqarah)

One of the newest topics of Quranic study is the discourse genres in the language of the Holy Qur'an which can be examined from different perspectives, one of them is to recite the efforts of Traditional scholars. For example, study about Rokuat that includes verses related to an issue and is an old divisions of the Holy Qur'an and identified with«ع» in codices of quran. By studying the ordering of the verses in rokuat as a part of the revelation of a surah, we can extract the patterns of texturing and the text structure of the Holy Qur'an. The present article analyze surah al- baqara as a case study. Surveys show that the discourse genres in surat al-baqarah are as below: general patterns including semitic rhetoric (parallel construction, ring composition , mirror composition), numerical pattern, oppositional discourse (dual confrontation between faith and disbelief), the sequential pattern (the order of giving blessings to the Israelites), the logogenesis with example , the expression diversity(the response to the resurrection in the form of mention Three stories), stylistic patterns include the same expressive way in the verses of bowing (commands) and the beginning of the common verses of bowing; the patterns based on the speech genres contained narrative genre (the story of Adam and the narrations of the Talut and Goliath), and the legal speech(jurisprudence).