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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Hermeneutics [Browse]
• Qurʼan—Criticism, interpretation, etc—History [Browse]
• Islam—Controversial literature [Browse]

Series

• Routledge studies in the Qurʾān [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the Quran

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-282) and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction: Listening to the text
• The crisis of quranic studies
• The scholarly conflict over the Qur'an
• The method and goal of the present work
• Excursus: Regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts
• Quranic case studies
• The prostration of the angels
• Al-Shayan al-Rajim
• Adam and feathers
• Abraham the gentile monotheist
• The laughter of Abraham's wife
• Haman and the tower to heaven
• The transformation of Jews
• Jonah and his people
• The nativity of Mary
• Our hearts are uncircumcised
• Do not think those who were killed in the path of God dead
• The companions of the cave
• Muhammad
• Qur'an and Tafsir
• Exegetical devices
• Historicization
• Occasion of revelation
• Variae lectiones (Qiraat)
• Takhir al-Muqaddam
• Judaeo-Christian traditions
• The mufassirun
• Tafsir and Qur'an
• Reading the Qur'an as homily
• The problem of translating the Qur'an
• Homiletic features of the Qur'an
• The Qur'an and Christian homily
• The Qur'an and its biblical subtext.

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Other title(s)

Koran and its biblical subtext

ISBN

• 9780415778930
• 041577893X

LCCN

2009035977

OCLC

436358419

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