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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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Subject(s)
Qurʼan
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History
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Arabic literature
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History and criticism
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Arabian Peninsula
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History
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To 622
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Arabic literature
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History and criticism
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Congresses
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Arabian Peninsula
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History
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To 622
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Congresses
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Related name
Neuwirth, Angelika
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Sinai, Nicolai, 1976-
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Marx, Michael, 1971-
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Editor
Neuwirth, Angelika
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Sinai, Nicolai, 1976-
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Marx, Michael, 1971-
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Series
Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 6.
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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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