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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 Qurʼān. [More in this series]
• Routledge studies in the Quran

Bibliographic references

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

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Contents

• Introduction: Listening to the text
• The crisis of Qur'ānic studies
• The scholarly conflict over the Qur'ān
• The method and goal of the present work
• Excursus: regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts
• Qur'ānic case studies
• The prostration of the angels
• al-Shayṭān al-Rajīm
• 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
• Muḥammad
• Qur'ān and tafsīr
• Exegetical devices
• Story-telling
• Occasion of revelation
• Variae lectiones (qirā'āt)
• Ta'kīir al-muqaddam
• The mufassirūn
• Tafsīr and Qur'ān
• Reading the Qur'ān as homily
• The problem of translating the Qur'ān
• Homiletic features of the Qur'ān
• The Qur'ān and Christian homily
• The Qur'ān and its Biblical subtext.

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Other title(s)

Koran and its biblical subtext

ISBN

• 9780415778930
• 041577893X

LCCN

^^2009035977

OCLC

436358419

RCP

H - S

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