Research Catalog

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Description

1. xi, 304 p.; 25 cm.

Series statement

1. Routledge studies in the Quran

Uniform title

1. Routledge studies in the Qurʾān
2. Routledge studies in the Qurʼān.

Alternative title

1. Koran and its biblical subtext

Subject

1. Qurʼan > Hermeneutics
2. Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History
3. Bibel
4. Koran
5. Islam > Controversial literature
6. Interpretation
7. Tafsir

Genre/Form

1. Controversial literature
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. History
4. Kommentar.

Contents

1. Introduction: Listening to the text -- The crisis of Qur'ānic studies -- The scholarly conflict over the Qur'ān -- The method and goal of the present work -- Excursus: regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts -- Qur'ānic case studies -- The prostration of the angels -- al-Shayṭān al-Rajīm -- Adam and feathers -- Abraham the gentile monotheist -- The laughter of Abraham's wife -- Haman and the tower to heaven -- The transformation of Jews -- Jonah and his people -- The nativity of Mary -- "Our hearts are uncircumcised" -- "Do not think those who were killed in the path of God dead" -- The companions of the cave -- Muḥammad -- Qur'ān and tafsīr -- Exegetical devices -- Story-telling -- Occasion of revelation -- Variae lectiones (qirā'āt) -- Ta'kīir al-muqaddam -- The mufassirūn -- Tafsīr and Qur'ān -- Reading the Qur'ān as homily -- The problem of translating the Qur'ān -- Homiletic features of the Qur'ān -- The Qur'ān and Christian homily -- The Qur'ān and its Biblical subtext.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-282) and indexes.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain