The Blackwell companion to the Qurʼān [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrew Rippin

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (578 p.)
• Disciplina: 297.1/226
• Soggetto topico: Islam - Doctrines
• Altri autori: RippinAndrew <1950->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Blackwell Companion to the Qur>a ̄n; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part I Orientation; 1 Introducing; 2 Discovering; 3 Contextualizing; Part II Text; 4 Linguistic Structure; 5 Patterns of Address; 6 Language; 7 Poetry and Language; 8 Foreign Vocabulary; 9 Structure and the Emergence of Community; 10 Sacrality and Collection; 11 Written Transmission; 12 Context: Muh. ammad; 13 Context: Umar b. al-Khattab; Part III Content; 14 God; 15 Prophets and Prophethood; 16 Moses; 17 Argumentation; 18 Knowing and Thinking; 19 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family; 20 Jihad; Part IV Interpretation
• Sommario/riassunto: The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an is a reader's guide, a true companion for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life. Comprises over 30 original essays by leading scholarsProvides exceptionally broad coverage - considering the structure, content and rhetoric of the Qur'an; how Muslims have interpreted the text and how they interact with it; and the Qur'an's place in IslamFeatures notes, an extensive bibliography, indexes of names, Qur'an citations, topics, and technical terms
• Titolo autorizzato: The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an
• ISBN: 1-281-30839-0; 9786611308391; 1-4051-6553-7; 0-470-75142-8; 1-4051-7844-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201953803316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Blackwell companions to religion.