Dialogue in Surat Yusuf : Quranic Methodologies to Influence and Persuade

Abstract

The research deals with the various dialogues in Surat Yusuf and has reached nineteen dialogues (the dialogues under discussion), analyzing them carefully, and exploring a number of methodologies that are followed in the Holy Quran through the interlocutors in the verse. These elements conveyed persuasion and conviction to the reader in an easy and interesting manner taking into considerations that the text is not too long or too short. The dialogues started with plotting a trap against Yusuf (peace be upon him). Following interlocutors starting a dialogue with their father Jacob (peace be upon him), to convince him to send Yusuf with them, then acquitting themselves of the killing of Yusuf. Later Yusuf was found by a group and was sold it to Aziz. What followed is the sedition of women to Yusuf, and the sedition of prison, reaching to the point where events took turn and Yusuf took the reins of government, and had dialogues with his brothers for reunion, and for the transfer of the Prophet's family to Egypt