Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an
The Medinan layer of the Qur'an occupies a key position in the formative period of Islam yet poses substantial interpretive challenges. This volume exemplifies a rich array of scholarly approaches to the Medinan Qur'an's distinctive textual, literary, and theological features.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Boston : BRILL,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Electronic books Medinische Suren |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (599 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | The Medinan layer of the Qur'an occupies a key position in the formative period of Islam yet poses substantial interpretive challenges. This volume exemplifies a rich array of scholarly approaches to the Medinan Qur'an's distinctive textual, literary, and theological features. Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Sinai) -- Part 1. Literary Features of the Medinan Qur'an -- Chapter 1. Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras (Sinai) -- Chapter 2. Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions (Klar) -- Chapter 3. Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qur'an: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras (Palombo) -- Chapter 4. Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras (Schmid) -- Chapter 5. Vocatives in the Qur'an and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations (Stewart) -- Part 2. Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes -- Chapter 6. The Qibla of Muhammad's Community Reconsidered (Neuwirth) -- Chapter 7. Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qur'an? (O'Connor) -- Chapter 8. Law in the Medinan Qur'an: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qur'anic Reiteration (Zellentin) -- Part 3. Studies of Individual Suras -- Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3) (Robinson) -- Chapter 10. A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4) (Lowry) -- Chapter 11. Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Sura (Q 8 al-Anfāl) (Bauer) -- Chapter 12. Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qur'an, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66 (Reynolds) -- Chapter 13. Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis (Hussain). |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (599 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9789004509702 9004509704 9789004509696 9004509690 |