The Qur'an in context : historical and literary investigations into the Qur'ānic milieu / edited by Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx.

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Book
Language
  • English
  • Arabic
Published/​Created
Leiden : Brill ; Biggleswade : Extenza Turpin [distributor], 2011.
Description
vii, 864 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
By addressing various aspects of the linguistic & historical context of the Qur'an & offering close readings of selected passages in the light of Jewish, Christian & ancient Arabic literature, this volume seeks to stimulate a new interaction between literary & historical scholarship.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction / Nicolai Sinai, Angelika Neuwirth
  • The martyrs of Najrān and the end of the Himyar : on the political history of South Arabia in the early sixth century / Norbert Nebes
  • Arabia in late antiquity : an outline of the cultural situation in the Peninsula at the time of Muhammad / Barbara Finster
  • Mecca on the caravan routes in pre-Islamic antiquity / Mikhail D. Bukharin
  • Early Islam in the light of Christian and Jewish sources / Harald Suermann
  • The evolving representation of the early Islamic Empire and its religion on coin imagery / Stefan Heidemann
  • Arabo-Aramaic and 'Arabiyya : from Ancient Arabic to early Standard Arabic, 200 CE-600 CE / Ernst Axel Knauf
  • Literacy in pre-Islamic Arabia : an analysis of the epigraphic evidence / Peter Stein
  • Arabs and Arabic in the age of the prophet / Jan Retsö
  • Sources for the history of pre-Islamic religion / Tilman Seidensticker
  • The 'Ibād of al-Ḥīra : an Arab Christian community in Late Antique Iraq / Isabel Toral-Niehoff
  • An early Christian Arabic account of the creation of the world / Kirill Dmitriev
  • The Qur'an and the prophet's poet : two poems by Ka'b b. Mālik / Agnes Imhof
  • The Qur'an as process / Nicolai Sinai
  • Quantitative text analysis and its application to the Qur'an : some preliminary considerations / Nora K. Schmid
  • Al-Ḥawāmīm : intertextuality and coherence in Meccan surahs / Islam Dayeh
  • The House of Abraham and the House of Amram : genealogy, patriarchal authority, and exegetical professionalism / Angelika Neuwirth
  • Glimpses of the mariology in the Qur'an : from hagiography to theology via religious-political debate / Michael Marx
  • The "seal of the prophets" : towards an understanding of Muhammad's prophethood / Hartmut Bobzin
  • Reading the Qur'an as Homily : the case of Sarah's laughter / Gabriel Said Reynolds
  • The Qur'anic commandment of writing down loan agreements (Q 2:282)
  • Perspectives of a comparison with rabbinical law / Reimund Leicht
  • Islam in its Arabian context / François de Blois
  • Lost in philology? The virgins of paradise and the Luxenberg hypothesis / Stefan Wild
  • The etymological fallacy and Qur'anic studies : Muhammad, paradise, and late antiquity / Walid A. Saleh
  • The relevance of early Arabic poetry for Qur'anic studies including observations on Kull and on Q22:27, 26:225, and 52:31 / Thomas Bauer
  • Qur'anic readings of the Psalms / Angelika Neuwirth
  • The codification of the Qur'an : a comment on the hypotheses of Burton and Wansbrough / Gregor Schoeler
  • The second Maṣāhif project : a step towards the canonization of the Qur'anic text / Omar Hamdan.
ISBN
  • 9789004211018 (pbk.)
  • 9004211012 (pbk.)
  • 9789004176881
  • 9004176888
OCLC
759585165
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