ABSTRACT This article offers a stylistic analysis of Qur’anic intertextuality in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, examining how sacred discourse is recontextualized to articulate exile, resistance, and identity. Drawing on literary stylistics and intertextual theory, the study explores how Darwish integrates Qur’anic diction, syntactic echoes, and rhetorical structures to construct a poetic voice that engages both cultural memory and political critique. The analysis reveals that Qur’anic references in his poetry function not merely as devotional allusions but as strategic linguistic tools that reshape collective meanings and challenge dominant ideologies. These intertextual features operate dialogically, fusing reverence with subversion and allowing Darwish to reposition the sacred within the terrain of poetic dissent. The article contributes to debates on Arabic literary discourse, highlighting the interplay between language, power, and identity, and demonstrates how stylistic analysis can illuminate the ideological work of intertextuality in modern resistance literature.
Jarrah et al. (2026) studied this question.