Isbn: 9789004211018 - the qur¿¿n in context: historical and literary investigations into the qurʾānic milieu (texts and studies on the qurʾān) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Sehr gut. vii, 864 p. Aus dem Vorbesitz von Werner Daum, ein deutscher Diplomat, Jurist und Autor kunsthistorischer Publikationen zur Kulturgeschichte Albaniens, des Jemen und des Sudan. Daher auf der ersten Seite handschriftliches Fundstellenverzeichnis in Bleistift und ca. 10 Seiten mit Bleistift- und Kugelschreiber-Anstreichungen. Der Einband ist leicht berieben, ansonsten ein sehr gutes Exemplar. / Previously owned by Werner Daum, a German diplomat, lawyer, and author of art-historical publications on the cultural history of Albania, Yemen, and Sudan. Consequently, the first page contains a handwritten bibliography in pencil, and approximately 10 pages have markings in pencil and ballpoint pen. The cover shows slight wear; otherwise, this is a very good copy. -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Nicolai Sinai and Angelika Neuwirth -- Part One: The Qur'an's Historical Context -- The Martyrs of Najran 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 ?? -- 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 'Ibad of al-Hira: 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 Kab b. M?lik -- 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-Haw?m?m: 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 Ma??hif Project: A Step Towards the Canonization of the Qur'anic Text -- Omar Hamdan -- List of Contributors. ISBN 9789004211018 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1283.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'an in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur'an's political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur'anic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur'an's internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.…