Islamic and comparative religious studies : selected writings / William A. Graham.

Author
Graham, William A. (William Albert), 1943- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Description
xviii, 317 p. ; 26 cm.

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    Series
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Action note
    Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
    Contents
    • History and interpretation of Islamic religion
    • Traditionalism in Islam: an essay in interpretation
    • Concepts of revelation in early Islam
    • The divine saying as problem
    • Transcendence in Islam
    • Islam in the mirror of ritual
    • The Qur'an as scripture
    • "The winds to herald his mercy": nature as token of God's sovereignty and grace in the Qurʼān
    • The earliest meaning of "Qurʼān"
    • Qurʼān as spoken word: an Islamic contribution to the understanding of scripture
    • "Those who study and teach the Qurʼān"
    • Scripture and the Qurʼān
    • Scripture in the history of religion
    • Scripture
    • Scripture as spoken word
    • The Indian paradigm for scriptural orality
    • God's word in the desert: Pachomian scriptural practice
    • Reflections on comparative study in religion: "scripture" as a case in point
    • William A. Graham: bibliography.
    ISBN
    • 9781409400257 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 1409400255 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    ^^2009053197
    OCLC
    494284260
    RCP
    H - S
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