The Qurʼān in its historical context / Gabriel Said Reynolds.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Routledge studies in the QurʼānPublication details: London ; Routledge, 2008.Description: xiv, 294 p. , [1] pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 041549169
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BP130.45 .R49 2009
Contents:
Introduction : Qurʼānic studies and its controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Quʼrān in recent scholarship : challenges and desiderata / Fred M. Donner -- Epigraphy and the linguistic background to the Quʼrān / Robert Hoyland -- Recent research on the construction of the Qurʼān / Gerhard Böwering -- Reconsidering the authorship of the Quʼrān : is the Quʼrān partly the fruit of a progressive and collective work? / Claude Gilliot -- Christian lore and the Arabic Quʼrān : the "companions of the cave" in Sūrat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition / Sidney Griffith -- The theological Christian influence on the Quʼrān : a reflection / Samir Khalil Samir -- Mary in the Quʼrān : a reexamination of her presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad -- The Alexander legend in the Quʼrān 18:83-102 / Kevin van Bladel -- Beyond single words : māʼida, shayṭān, jibt and ṭāghūt : mechanisms of transmission into the Ethiopic (Geʻez) Bible and the Quʼrānic text / Manfred Kropp -- Nascent Islam in the seventh century Syriac sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi -- Notes on medieval and modern emendations of the Quʼrān / Devin J. Stewart -- Syriac in the Quʼrān : classical Muslim theories / Andrew Rippin.
Summary: Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur'anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. Among other things, it analyzes the
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Introduction : Qurʼānic studies and its controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds --
The Quʼrān in recent scholarship : challenges and desiderata / Fred M. Donner --
Epigraphy and the linguistic background to the Quʼrān / Robert Hoyland --
Recent research on the construction of the Qurʼān / Gerhard Böwering --
Reconsidering the authorship of the Quʼrān : is the Quʼrān partly the fruit of a progressive and collective work? / Claude Gilliot --
Christian lore and the Arabic Quʼrān : the "companions of the cave" in Sūrat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition / Sidney Griffith --
The theological Christian influence on the Quʼrān : a reflection / Samir Khalil Samir --
Mary in the Quʼrān : a reexamination of her presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad --
The Alexander legend in the Quʼrān 18:83-102 / Kevin van Bladel --
Beyond single words : māʼida, shayṭān, jibt and ṭāghūt : mechanisms of transmission into the Ethiopic (Geʻez) Bible and the Quʼrānic text / Manfred Kropp --
Nascent Islam in the seventh century Syriac sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi --
Notes on medieval and modern emendations of the Quʼrān / Devin J. Stewart --
Syriac in the Quʼrān : classical Muslim theories / Andrew Rippin.

Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur'anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. Among other things, it analyzes the

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