Author(s): Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai, Michael Marx
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 873
Contents......Page 6
Introduction (Nicolai Sinai and Angelika Neuwirth)......Page 10
Part One: The Qur’an's Historical Context......Page 34
The Martyrs of najrān and the end of the Himyar: on the Political History of south Arabia in the early sixth Century (Norbert Nebes)......Page 36
Arabia in Late Antiquity: An outline of the Cultural situation in the Peninsula at the time of Muhammad (Barbara Finster)......Page 70
Mecca on the Caravan Routes in Pre-Islamic Antiquity (Mikhail D. Bukharin)......Page 124
Early Islam in the Light of Christian and Jewish sources (Harald Suermann)......Page 144
The evolving Representation of the early Islamic empire and its Religion on Coin Imagery (Stefan Heidemann)......Page 158
Arabo-Aramaic and 'Arabiyya: From Ancient Arabic to early standard Arabic, 200 CE–600 CE (Ernst Axel Knauf)......Page 206
Literacy in Pre-Islamic Arabia: An Analysis of the epigraphic evidence (Peter Stein)......Page 264
Arabs and Arabic in the Age of the Prophet (Jan Retsö)......Page 290
Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Religion (Tilman Seidensticker)......Page 302
The 'Ibād of al-Hīra: An Arab Christian Community in Late Antique Iraq (Isabel Toral-Niehoff)......Page 332
An early Christian Arabic Account of the Creation of the World (Kirill Dmitriev)......Page 358
The Qur'an and the Prophet's Poet: two Poems by Ka'b b. Mālik (Agnes Imhof)......Page 398
Part Two: Contextualizing the Qur’an......Page 414
The Qur'an as Process (Nicolai Sinai)......Page 416
Quantitative text Analysis and Its Application to the Qur’an: some Preliminary Considerations (Nora K. Schmid)......Page 450
Al-AHawāmīm: Intertextuality and Coherence in Meccan surahs (Islam Dayeh)......Page 470
The House of Abraham and the House of Amram: Genealogy, Patriarchal Authority, and exegetical Professionalism (Angelika Neuwirth)......Page 508
Glimpses of a Mariology in the Qur’an: From Hagiography to Theology via Religious-Political Debate (Michael Marx)......Page 542
The "Seal of the Prophets": towards an Understanding of Muhammad's Prophethood (Hartmut Bobzin)......Page 574
Reading the Qur’an as Homily: The Case of Sarah's Laughter (Gabriel Said Reynolds)......Page 594
The Qur’anic Commandment of Writing Down Loan Agreements (Q 2:282)—Perspectives of a Comparison with Rabbinical Law (Reimund Leicht)......Page 602
Islam in its Arabian Context (François de Blois)......Page 624
Lost in Philology? The Virgins of Paradise and the Luxenberg Hypothesis (Stefan Wild)......Page 634
The Etymological Fallacy and Qur’anic Studies: Muhammad, Paradise, and Late Antiquity (Walid A. Saleh)......Page 658
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)......Page 708
Qur’anic Readings of the Psalms (Angelika Neuwirth)......Page 742
The Codification of the Qur'an: A Comment on the Hypotheses of Burton and Wansbrough (Gregor Schoeler)......Page 788
The second Maşāhif Project: A Step Towards the Canonization of the Qur'anic text (Omar Hamdan)......Page 804
List of Contributors......Page 846
Index of Qur'anic References
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Index of References to Biblical, Jewish, and Christian Sources
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Index of Names (persons, tribal groups, places, and buildings)
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Index of Subjects
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