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Biography
Dr Salwa El-Awa iscurrently an academic of Arabic and Islamic Studies within the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University. Dr El-Awa was previously an academic at University of Birmingham, during which time she was an author of articles in the Encyclopaedia of the Quran.
Salwa is an Arabic word meaning "solace".
Academic career
El-Awa has published work on Relevance theory and Qur'anic text, Al-Jama'a Al-Islamiyya and counter-terrorism policing in the UK and Egypt. She aims in her work to discuss the problem of textual relations in the Quran from a linguistic point of view and the way in which the verses of one chapter relate to each other and to the wider context of the total message of the Quran. El-Awa provides a detailed analysis in terms of coherence theory on chapters 33 and 75 and shows that these two chapters cohere and have a main contextual relationship.
Other publications
- Discourse Markers as Indicators of Text Structure in the multiple-topic Qur’anic suras: a meta-analysis of Q:2. Journal of Qur'anic Studies
- (2005). The Qur'anic Text: Relevance, Coherence and Structure.
- (2019) Governance and Counter-Terrorism: engaging moderate and non-violent extremist movements in combatting Jihadist-linked Terrorism.
- (2019) Discourse markers and the structure of intertextual relations of medium length Qur'anic suras: the case of Sūrat Ṭā Hā.
- (2017) The Linguistic Structure in Andrew Rippin and Jawid Mujaddidi (ed.), Blackwell's Companion to the Qur'an, 2nd edition.