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Prophecy and power : Muhammad and the Qur'an in the light of comparison / Marilyn Robinson Waldman ; edited by Bruce B. Lawrence, with Lindsay Jones and Robert M. Baum.
LIBRA BP166.5 .W35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldman, Marilyn Robinson.
- Series:
- Comparative Islamic studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Prophetic office.
- Muḥammad.
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.
- Prophets--Comparative studies.
- Prophets.
- Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Qurʼan.
- Genre:
- Comparative studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 195 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sheffield, U.K. ; Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2012.
- Summary:
- A posthumous work by the most rigorous comparativist in her generation of Islamic studies scholars, Prophecy and Power proposes a major innovative approach to both the Prophet Muhammad and the Noble Qur'an. By the end of the ninth century, the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an intercommunal norm beyond compare, and yet the very constructedness of this model of Muhammad allows historians of religion to see how the process itself requires us to undercut the terms used. We undercut them by qualifying them with multiple meanings, both overlapping and corrective, but we also decapitalize them in order to suggest how much broader they were in earlier contexts, and how much broader they may become, or were intended to become, in later contexts.
- Contents:
- Preface / Bruce Lawrence
- Prologue : inviting prophets and entertaining comparisons
- Opening a black box : rethinking the comparative study of prophecy
- Comparatively speaking : Qur'anic comparison as a modality of change
- Beyond compare : Muhammad as exemplar and foil
- An experiment in comparison : Muhammad and Alinesitoué / with Robert M. Baum
- Postscript : suffering by comparison / Lindsay Jones.
- Notes:
- Works by Marilyn Robinson Waldman: pages [175]-179.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-186) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1845539877
- 9781845539870
- OCLC:
- 727047970
- Publisher Number:
- 99951376433
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