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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Related name

• Wild, Stefan, 1937- [Browse]

Series

• Diskurse der Arabistik ; Bd. 11. [More in this series]
• Diskurse der Arabistik, 0949-6807 ; Bd. 11 [More in this series]

Summary note

The Qur'an is probably the most self-referential text in the history of world religions. It often describes its own textuality, it reflects on Arabic as its linguistic medium, it distances itself from other genres of mantic speech such as poetry or soothsaying, it justifies itself vis-a-vis other revelations, and finally it contains important elements of exegesis. Muslim scripture is a message and at the same time often a message about the message. The self-reflexive mood of the Qur'an has only recently become a focus of Qur'anic studies. This collection of papers by a number of experts in the field outlines the role of selfreferentiality for the inner history of Qur'anic recitation, for the canonization of the Qur'anic text and for a better understanding of Qur'anic revelation in its historical embedding.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Why self-referentiality? / Stefan Wild
• Eavesdropping on the heavenly assembly and the protection of the revelation from demonic corruption / Gerald Hawting
• Agonistic poetics in the Qurʼān : self-referentialities, refutations, and the development of a Qurʼānic self / Thomas Hoffmann
• The limits of self-referentiality in the Qurʼān / Daniel A. Madigan
• "Oral scriptures" in contact. The Qurʼānic story of the Golden Calf and its biblical subtext between narrative, cult, and inter-communal debate / Angelika Neuwirth
• The Qurʼān
• codification and canonization / Matthias Radscheit
• Qurʼānic self-referentiality as a strategy of self-authorization / Nicholai Sinai
• An Arabic recitation. The meta-linguistics of Qurʼānic revelation / Stefan Wild.

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ISBN

• 9783447053839
• 3447053836

LCCN

2007413274

OCLC

84610954

International Article Number

• 9783447053839

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