Applying the Theory of Symmetric Order in the Holy Quran; A Novel Approach to Structural Coherence in Surah Yusuf

Abstract : One of the types of Qur'an studies in recent decades among Orientalists and Muslims is the new researches in the knowledge of new fields of order of the Holy Qur'an. Meanwhile, researches based on symmetric order or reverse order have been able to take a good place in this. The present article examines the coherence of Surah Mubaraka Yusuf by adopting the descriptive-analytical method. This article first introduces the concept of symmetrical order theory and then analyzes the rhetoric of Surah Yusuf. Surah Yusuf is divided into sixteen sections and the relationship between the sections of the surah is established in reverse and presents a general and comprehensive model of the relationship of the sections of the surah with each other . One of the results of this research is the proof of the orderly structure of Surah Yusuf in the form of the theory of symmetrical order.