New perspectives on the Qur'an : the Qur'an in its historical context 2 / edited by Gabriel Said Reynolds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reynolds, Gabriel Said.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in the Qurʾān

Routledge studies in the Quran ; [12]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Commentaries--History and criticism.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xx, 538 pages : illustrations map ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Qur'an in its historical context 2

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction : the golden age of Qur'ānic studies? / Gabriel Said Reynolds

The historian, the believer, and the Qur'ān / Fred M. Donner

Studies in Qur'ānic vocabulary : the problem of the dictionary / Andrew Rippin

Towards understanding the Qur'ān's worldview : an autobiographical reflection / Nasr Abu Zayd

The Jews of the Hijaz in the Qur'ān and in their inscriptions / Robert G. Hoyland

The usage of ancient South Arabian and other Arabian languages as an etymological source for Qur'ānic vocabulary / Hani Hayajneh

Vowel letters and ortho-epic writing in the Qur'ān / Gerd-R. Puin

Hapaxes in the Qur'ān : identifying and cataloguing lone words (and loanwords) / Shawkat M. Toorawa

Tripartite, but anti-Trinitarian formulas in the Qur'ānic corpus, possibly pre-Qur'ānic / Manfred Kropp

Angels, stars, death, the soul, horses, bows

or women? The opening verses of Qur'ān 79 / Munther Younes

Al-Najm (Q 53), Chapter of the Star : a new Syro-Aramaic reading of verses 1 to 18 / Christoph Luxenberg

Al-Naṣārā in the Qur'ān : a hermeneutical reflection / Sidney Griffith

The mysterious letters and other formal features of the Qur'ān in light of Greek and Babylonian oracular texts / Devin J. Stewart

Does the Qur'ān deny or assert Jesus's crucifixion and death? / Suleiman A. Mourad

Early Christian Arabic texts : evidence for non-ʻUthmānic Qur'ān codices, or early approaches to the Qur'ān? / Clare Wilde

"Has God sent a mortal as a messenger?" (Q 17:95) : messengers and angels in the Qur'ān / Gerald Hawting

Is there a notion of "divine election" in the Qur'ān? / Reuven Firestone

Lot's daughters in the Qur'ān : an investigation through the lens of intertextuality / Waleed Ahmed

Joseph among the Ishmaelites : Q 12 in light of Syriac sources / Joseph Witztum

Condemnation in the Qur'ān and the Syriac Gospel of Matthew / Emran El-Badawi

The Qur'ānic pharaoh / Adam Silverstein.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ([478]-511) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

0415615488

9780203813539

0203813537

OCLC:

690084601

Publisher Number:

99949912044