Islamic studies today : essays in honor of Andrew Rippin / edited by Majid Daneshgar, Walid A. Saleh.

Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • Arabic
  • French
Published/​Created
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description
xxii, 432 pages ; 25 cm.

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Subject(s)
Honoree
Editor
Series
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Text primarily in English with some Arabic and French.
Contents
  • "A Plaything for Kings"? ʻAʼisha's hadith, Ibn al-Zubayr, and rebuilding the Kaʻba / Gerald Hawting
  • Remnants of an old tafsir tradition? The exegetical accounts of ʻUrwa b. al-Zubayr / Andreas Gorke
  • Muqatil on Zayd and Zaynab ? "The sunna of Allah concerning those who passed away before" ?(Q 33:38) / Gordon Nickel
  • Asbab al-muzul as a technical term; its emergence and application in the Islamic sources / Roberto Tottoli
  • Laylat al-Qadr as sacred time; sacred cosmology in Sunni kalam and tafsir / Arnold Yasin Mol
  • Is there covenant theology in Islam? / Tariq Jaffer
  • Th e Qurʼan's enchantment of the World; "antique" narratives refashioned in Arab late antiquity / Angelika Neuwirth
  • Messianism and the shadow of history; Judaism and Islam in a time of uncertainty / Aaron W. Hughes
  • Some reflections on borrowing, influence, and the entwining of Jewish and Islamic traditions; or, What the image of a calf might do / Michael E. Pregill
  • Inheriting Egypt: the Israelites and the Exodus in the Meccan Qurʼan / Nicolai Sinai
  • Re-examining textual Boundaries; towards a form-critical Surat al-Kahf / Marianna Klar
  • Philology and the meaning of Surat al-Buruj / Bruce Fudge
  • A flawed prophet? Noah in the Qurʼan and Qurʼanic commentary / Gabriel S. Reynolds
  • An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus; deracinating and reracinating Jesus by Drew Ali / Herbert Berg
  • Reading the Qurʼan chronologically; an aid to discourse coherence and thematic development / Peter G. Riddell
  • The fig, the olive, and the cycles of Prophethood: Q 95:1-3 and the image of history in early 20th-century Qurʼanic exegesis / Johanna Pink
  • The "Scientific miracle of the Qurʼan"; map and assessment / Stefano Bigliardi
  • Locating the "esoteric" in Islamic studies / Feras Hamza
  • Western non-Muslim Qurʼanic studies in Muslim academic contexts; on Rippin's works from the Middle East to the Malay-Indonesian World / Majid Daneshgar
  • A concluding reflection / Jane McAuliffe
  • Andrew Rippin: La sainte sagesse et le saint silence / Claude Gilliot.
ISBN
  • 9789004336339 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
  • 9004336338 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
LCCN
2016053918
OCLC
963744420
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