By addressing various aspects of the Qur'an's linguistic and historical context and offering close readings of selected passages in the light of Jewish, Christian, and ancient Arabic literature, the volume seeks to stimulate a new interaction between literary and historical scholarship.
Author(s): Angelika Neuwirth; Nicolai Sinai; Michael Marx
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 864
Tags: qur'an, koran, quran
Contents
Introduction (Nicolai Sinai and Angelika Neuwirth)
Part One: The Qur’an's Historical Context
The Martyrs of najrān and the end of the Himyar: on the Political History of south Arabia in the early sixth Century (Norbert Nebes)
Arabia in Late Antiquity: An outline of the Cultural situation in the Peninsula at the time of Muhammad (Barbara Finster)
Mecca on the Caravan Routes in Pre-Islamic Antiquity (Mikhail D. Bukharin)
Early Islam in the Light of Christian and Jewish sources (Harald Suermann)
The evolving Representation of the early Islamic empire and its Religion on Coin Imagery (Stefan Heidemann)
Arabo-Aramaic and 'Arabiyya: From Ancient Arabic to early standard Arabic, 200 CE–600 CE (Ernst Axel Knauf)
Literacy in Pre-Islamic Arabia: An Analysis of the epigraphic evidence (Peter Stein)
Arabs and Arabic in the Age of the Prophet (Jan Retsö)
Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Religion (Tilman Seidensticker)
The 'Ibād of al-Hīra: An Arab Christian Community in Late Antique Iraq (Isabel Toral-Niehoff)
An early Christian Arabic Account of the Creation of the World (Kirill Dmitriev)
The Qur'an and the Prophet's Poet: two Poems by Ka'b b. Mālik (Agnes Imhof)
Part Two: Contextualizing the Qur’an
The Qur'an as Process (Nicolai Sinai)
Quantitative text Analysis and Its Application to the Qur’an: some Preliminary Considerations (Nora K. Schmid)
Al-AHawāmīm: Intertextuality and Coherence in Meccan surahs (Islam Dayeh)
The House of Abraham and the House of Amram: Genealogy, Patriarchal Authority, and exegetical Professionalism (Angelika Neuwirth)
Glimpses of a Mariology in the Qur’an: From Hagiography to Theology via Religious-Political Debate (Michael Marx)
The "Seal of the Prophets": towards an Understanding of Muhammad's Prophethood (Hartmut Bobzin)
Reading the Qur’an as Homily: The Case of Sarah's Laughter (Gabriel Said Reynolds)
The Qur’anic Commandment of Writing Down Loan Agreements (Q 2:282)—Perspectives of a Comparison with Rabbinical Law (Reimund Leicht)
Islam in its Arabian Context (François de Blois)
Lost in Philology? The Virgins of Paradise and the Luxenberg Hypothesis (Stefan Wild)
The Etymological Fallacy and Qur’anic Studies: Muhammad, Paradise, and Late Antiquity (Walid A. Saleh)
The Relevance of Early Arabic Poetry for Qur’anic Studies Including observations on Kull and on Q 22:27, 26:225, and 52:31 (Thomas Bauer)
Qur’anic Readings of the Psalms (Angelika Neuwirth)
The Codification of the Qur'an: A Comment on the Hypotheses of Burton and Wansbrough (Gregor Schoeler)
The second Maşāhif Project: A Step Towards the Canonization of the Qur'anic text (Omar Hamdan)
List of Contributors
Index of Qur'anic References
Index of References to Biblical, Jewish, and Christian Sources
Index of Names (persons, tribal groups, places, and buildings)
Index of Subjects
