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

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

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    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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