Unlocking the Medinan Qurʼan / edited by Nicolai Sinai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sinai, Nicolai, 1976- editor.

Series:

Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 19.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 19

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--History of Qurʼanic events.

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Criticism, Textual.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan--History.

Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (599 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur'an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Nicolai Sinai

Part I. Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʼan: 1. Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras / Nicolai Sinai

2. Lexical Layers vs. Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat alBaqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions / Marianna Klar

3. Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras / Cecilia Palombo

4. Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras / Nora K. Schmid

5. Vocatives in the Qurʼan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations / Devin J. Stewart

Part II. Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes: 6. The Qibla of Muhammad's Community Reconsidered / Angelika Neuwirth

7. Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʼan? / Andrew J. O'Connor

8. Law in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʼanic Reiteration / Holger Zellentin

Part III. Studies of Individual Suras: 9. The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʻImrān (Q 3) / Neal Robinson

10. A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (Q 4) / Joseph E. Lowry

11. Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl) / Karen Bauer

12. Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʼan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66 / Gabriel S. Reynolds

13. Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis / Saqib Hussain

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sinai, Nicolai Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an

ISBN:

9789004509702

OCLC:

1294399417

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004509702 DOI