The Qurʾan and Syriac Christianity : Recurring Themes and Motifs / edited by Ana Davitashvili.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davitashvili, Ana, editor.

Series:

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 28.

Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Recurring Themes and Motifs

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Scholars of Qurʾanic studies have commonly acknowledged the significance of pre-Islamic Syriac Christian literature for the study of the Qurʾan. By offering new evidence, the present volume refines and challenges the arguments of previous studies and unearths hitherto unexplored recurring themes and motifs. It focuses on selected themes related to prophets, military and non-military forms of jihād , concepts of darkness and light, depictions of the Garden and the Fire, Satan’s fall, and bodily purity. The volume also seeks to highlight the importance of Syriac texts to the Qurʾan’s theology relative to comparable Jewish and non-Syriac Christian sources. Moreover, it investigates how Qurʾanic concepts diverge from Syriac Christian parallels and develop a distinct theological message. Contributors are Daniel Bannoura, Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov, Johanne Louise Christiansen, Ryann Elizabeth Craig, Ana Davitashvili, Mohammad Ghandehari, Mohammad Haghani Fazl, Mark Hoover, Nestor Kavvadas, Jacob M. Kildoo, Christian Lange, Gavin McDowell, MohammadReza Moini, and Lasse Løvlund Toft.

Contents:

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Ana Davitashvili

Part 1 Prophets and Humans Surrounding Them

1 A Talking New-Born (Q 19:30), Aaron’s Sister (Q 19:28), Mary Who Is Not God (Q 5:116): Qurʾanic Cruces and Their Syriac Intertexts

Nestor Kavvadas

2 “You Crucified Him and You Killed Him; except That God Raised Him”: Creedal Patterns and the Qurʾanic Crucifixion

Ryann Elizabeth Craig

3 One Prophet, Two Narratives: Temporal Sequence of Jonah’s Story in Late Antiquity

Mohammad Ghandehari and MohammadReza Moini

4 Moses’s Mother as a Prophetological Figure: The Qurʾan’s Reception of the Story of the Birth of Moses

Mohammad Haghani Fazl

5 “Perennial Enemies” in the Qurʾan’s Prophetology: A Refiguring of Christian Anti-Jewish Motifs?

Jacob M. Kildoo

Part 2 Non-Military and Military Jihāds

6 Life as a Spiritual Struggle with the Evil One in Pre-Islamic Syriac Texts: The Theological Background to the Qurʾanic Idea of Spiritual Jihād?

Christian Lange

7 Thirst for Killing and Being Killed in the Syriac Eusebius Narrative and the Qurʾan

Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov

Part 3 Darkness and Light

8 Unbelief, Protection, and Containers: Dark Metaphors between the Qurʾan and Syriac Writings

Johanne Louise Christiansen

9 The Garment of Light and Glory in the Qurʾan? Further Notes on libās in Q 7:27 in Light of Qurʾanic Verses and Pre-Islamic Syriac Texts

Part 4 Garden and Fire

10 The Recension of Ephrem’s Hymns on Paradise in the Qurʾan

Daniel Bannoura

11 Damned Accusers and Fueled Fires: On the Syriac Reception of Daniel 3 and the Aṣḥāb al-Ukhdūd in Q 85:4–11

Lasse Løvlund Toft

Part 5 The Qurʾan an Essential Source for Syriac Christianity and a Syriac Text an Essential Source for the Qurʾan?

12 Bodily Purity in Syrian Christianity and the Qurʾan

Mark Hoover

13 The Cave of Treasures and the Qurʾan: A Reappraisal

Gavin McDowell

Index of Qurʾanic Verses

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004750975

OCLC:

1603126439

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004750975 DOI