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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815090903321

Titolo

Quranic studies today / / edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael A. Sells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-29566-8

1-315-64665-X

1-317-29565-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Collana

Routledge Studies in the Qur'an

Altri autori (Persone)

NeuwirthAngelika

SellsMichael Anthony

Disciplina

297.1226

297.12207

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Wansbrough, Bultmann, and the theory of variant traditions in the Quran / Devin J. Stewart -- 2. Lot's wife : late antique paradigms of sense and the Quran / Nora K. Schmid -- 3. The sign of Jonah : transformations and interpretations of the Jonah story in the Quran / Hannelies Koloska -- 4. End of hope : Suras 10-15, despair and a way out of Mecca / Walid A. Saleh -- 5. The casting : a close hearing of Sura 20:1-79 / Michael A. Sells -- 6. Quranic studies and philology : Quranic textual politics of staging, penetrating, and finally eclipsing Biblical tradition / Angelika Neuwirth -- 7. The "Sunna of our messengers" : the Quran'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 Quran : analysis of performance of Surat al-Furqan by Sheikh Mishari Rashid Alafasy / Lauren E. Osborne -- 9. Ma'sal : what the Talal would tell us / Ghassan El Masri -- 10. Ahbar and Ruhban : religious leaders in the Quran in dialogue with Christian and Rabbinic literature / Holger M. Zellentin -- 11. Reinterpreting the Quranic criticism of other religions / Mun'im Sirry.