The Quranic Noah and the making of the Islamic prophet : a study of intertextuality and religious identity formation in late antiquity / Carlos A. Segovia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segovia, Carlos A., 1970- author.

Series:

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation ; Volume 4.

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation ; Volume 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Noah (Biblical figure)--In the Qurʼan.

Noah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studies is one in which the very basic questions must nowadays be addressed with decision. Accordingly, this book tries to resituate the Qur'ān at the crossroads of the conversations of old, to which its parabiblical narratives witness, and explores how Muhammad’s image – which was apparently modelled after that of the anonymous prophet repeatedly alluded to in the Qur'ān – originally matched that of other prophets and/or charismatic figures distinctive in the late-antique sectarian milieu out of which Islam gradually emerged. Moreover, it contends that the Quranic Noah narratives provide a first-hand window into the making of Muhammad as an eschatological prophet and further examines their form, content, purpose, and sources as a means of deciphering the scribal and intertextual nature of the Qur'ān as well as the Jewish-Christian background of the messianic controversy that gave birth to the new Arab religion. The previously neglected view that Muhammad was once tentatively thought of as a new Messiah challenges our common understanding of Islam’s origins.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

List of Tables

Foreword and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 / Introduction: The Quranic Noah and the Re-mapping of Early Islamic Studies

Chapter 2 / Tracing the Apocalyptic Noah in Pre-Islamic Jewish and Christian Literature

Excursus. A Lost Apocalypse of Noah?

Chapter 3 / Noah in the Qur’ān: An Overview

Excursus A. Full text and translation of the quranic Noah narratives

Excursus B. Quranic allusions to Noah outside the quranic Noah narratives

Chapter 4 / The Quranic Noah Narratives: Form, Content, Context, and Primary Meaning

Excursus. Reworked texts in the quranic Noah narratives

Chapter 5 / Reading Between the Lines: The Quranic Noah Narratives as Witnesses to the Life of the Quranic Prophet?

Excursus A. The original story behind the Noah narratives in Q 11 and 71

Excursus B. Q 11:35,49 and the redactional scribal background of the Qur’ān

Chapter 6 / Reading Backwards: Sources and Precedents of the Quranic Noah

Excursus. A Syriac source behind the blessing of Noah in Q 37:78–81?

Chapter 7 / Reading Forward: From the Quranic Noah to the Muhammadan Evangelium

Excursus A. Ibn Isḥāq’s original Noah narrative

Excursus B. Re-imagining ancient messianic roles: Prophets, messiahs and charismatic leaders in the literature of Second Temple Judaism and earliest Christianity

Afterword: Reading Otherwise, or Re-imagining Muḥammad as a New Messiah

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Ancient Writings

Index of Ancient and Modern Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110405897

311040589X

9783110406054

3110406055

OCLC:

952781830