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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—History [Browse]
• Arabic literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Arabian Peninsula—History—To 622 [Browse]
• Arabic literature—History and criticism—Congresses [Browse]
• Arabian Peninsula—History—To 622—Congresses [Browse]

Related name

• Neuwirth, Angelika [Browse]
• Sinai, Nicolai, 1976- [Browse]
• Marx, Michael, 1971- [Browse]

Editor

• Neuwirth, Angelika [Browse]
• Sinai, Nicolai, 1976- [Browse]
• Marx, Michael, 1971- [Browse]

Series

• Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 6. [More in this series]
• Texts and studies on the Qur'ān ; 6

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.

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ISBN

• 9789004211018 (pbk.)
• 9004211012 (pbk.)
• 9789004176881
• 9004176888

OCLC

759585165

RCP

H - S

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