<P><EM>Qur'ānic Studies Today</EM> brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān. </P> <P>Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contribut
Qurʼanic studies today
✍ Scribed by Neuwirth, Angelika; Sells, Michael Anthony
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 373
- Series
- Routledge studies in the Qurʼān.
- Category
- Library
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✦ Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART 1 --
1. Wansbrough, Bultmann, and the Theory of Variant Traditions in the Qur'an / Devin J. Stewart --
2. Lot's Wife: Late Antique Paradigms of Sense and the Qur'an / Nora K. Schmid --
3. Sign of Jonah: Transformations and Interpretations of the Jonah Story in the Qur'an / Hannelies Koloska --
PART 2 --
4. End of Hope: Suras 10 --
15, Despair and a Way Out of Mecca / Walid A. Saleh --
5. Casting: A Close Hearing of Sura 20:1 --
79 / Michael A. Sells --
6. Qur'anic Studies and Philology: Qur'anic Textual Politics of Staging, Penetrating, and Finally Eclipsing Biblical Tradition / Angelika Neuwirth --
7. "Sunna of Our Messengers": The Qur'an's Paradigm for Messengers and Prophets
a Reading of Surat ash-Shu'ara' (26) / Sidney H. Griffith --
8. Textual and Paratextual Meaning in the Recited Qur'an: Analysis of Performance of Surat al-Furqan by Sheikh Mishari Rashid Alafasy / Lauren E. Osborne --
PART 3 --
9. Ma'sal: What the Talal Would Tell Us / Ghassan El Masri --
10. Ahbar and Ruhban: Religious Leaders in the Qur'an in Dialogue with Christian and Rabbinic Literature / Holger M. Zellentin --
11. Reinterpreting the Qur'anic Criticism of Other Religions / Mun'im Sirry.
✦ Subjects
Qurʼan -- Study and teaching;Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- History;Qurʼan;Koran;Qur’an -- Study and teaching;Qur’an -- Criticism, interpretation, etc -- History;Study skills;Interpretation;Tafsir;Textkritik;Schriftverständnis
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