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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qurʾa¯N The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qurʾa¯n The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion The Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series presents a collection of the most recent scholarship and knowledge about world religions. Each volume draws together newly commissioned essays by distinguished authors in the field, and is presented in a style which is accessible to undergraduate students, as well as scholars and the interested general reader. These volumes approach the subject in a creative and forward‐thinking style, providing a forum in which leading scholars in the field can make their views and research available to a wider audience. 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Description: Second edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2017. | Series: The Wiley Blackwell companions to religion | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016045435 (print) | LCCN 2016047317 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118964804 (cloth) | ISBN 9781118964842 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118964835 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Qurʾān –Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Qurʾān –Appreciation. Classification: LCC BP130.4 .W55 2017 (print) | LCC BP130.4 (ebook) | DDC 297.1/226–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016045435 Cover Image: © Gyuszko/Gettyimages Cover Design: Wiley Set in 10/12.5pt Photina by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain by TJ International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents List of Contributors viii Preface xi Andrew Rippin Introduction 1 Jawid Mojaddedi Part I Orientation 5 1 Introducing 7 Tamara Sonn 2 Discovering 23 Christopher Buck 3 Contextualizing 43 Abdullah Saeed Part II Text 59 4 Linguistic Structure 61 Salwa El‐Awa 5 Patterns of Address 82 Rosalind Ward Gwynne 6 Language 97 Mustansir Mir 7 Poetry and Language 117 Navid Kermani vi CONTENTS 8 Foreign Vocabulary 130 Michael Carter 9 Structure and the Emergence of Community 151 Angelika Neuwirth 10 Sacrality and Collection 171 Aliza Shnizer 11 Written Transmission 184 François Déroche 12 Context: Muḥammad 200 Herbert Berg 13 Context: ʿUmar b. al‐Khatṭạ̄b 218 Avraham Hakim Part III Content 235 14 God 237 Andrew Rippin 15 Prophets and Prophethood 248 Uri Rubin 16 Moses 262 Brannon Wheeler 17 Abraham 280 Carol Bakhos 18 Jesus 288 Gordon Nickel 19 Biblical Background 303 Gabriel Said Reynolds 20 Other Religions 320 Mun’im Sirry 21 Argumentation 333 Kate Zebiri 22 Knowing and Thinking 349 A. H. Mathias Zahniser 23 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family 365 Khaleel Mohammed 24 Jihād 376 Reuven Firestone CONTENTS vii Part IV Interpretation 389 25 Hermeneutics: al‐Thaʿlabı ̄ 391 Walid Saleh 26 Stories of the Prophets 406 Marianna Klar 27 Ṣūfism 418 Alan Godlas 28 Rūmı ̄ 430 Jawid Mojaddedi 29 Ibn al‐ʿArabı ̄ 442 Binyamin Abrahamov 30 Twelver Shı̄ʿı ̄ Taʾwıl̄ 449 Diana Steigerwald 31 Ismāʿılı̄ ̄ Taʾwıl̄ 463 Diana Steigerwald 32 Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān 479 Johanna Pink Part V Application 493 33 Exegetical Sciences 495 Jane Dammen McAuliffe 34 Theology 512 Binyamin Abrahamov 35 Jurisprudence 526 A. Kevin Reinhart 36 Contemporary Ethical Issues 543 Leah Kinberg 37 Narrative Literature 562 Roberto Tottoli 38 Recitation 577 Anna M. Gade Bibliography 591 Index of People, Places and Topics 632 Index of Qurʾā̄n Verses 651 List of Contributors Binyamin Abrahamov, Professor of Islamic Theology and Qurʾānic Studies, Bar‐Ilan University, Israel. Carol Bakhos, Professor of Late Antique Judaism and Jewish Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, USA. Herbert Berg, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA. Christopher Buck, Independent scholar and attorney in Pennsylvania, having taught at Michigan State University, Quincy University, Millikin University, and Carleton University, USA. Michael Carter, Professor of Arabic, University of Oslo (until 2005), Honorary Professor at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre of Sydney University, Australia. François Déroche, Professor, École pratique des hautes études, Paris, France. Salwa El‐Awa, Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Languages, Translation, and Communication, Swansea University, UK. Reuven Firestone, Regenstein Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, senior fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture and co‐director of the Center for Muslim‐Jewish Engagement, USA. Anna M. Gade, Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia and the Religious Studies Program, University of Wisconsin‐Madison, USA. Alan Godlas, Associate Professor, Department of Religion, University of Georgia, USA. Rosalind Ward Gwynne, Emerita Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tennessee, USA. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ix Avraham Hakim, Arabic teacher and lecturer on Islam, The Lowy School for Overseas Students, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Navid Kermani, writer, Cologne, Germany. Leah Kinberg, Senior Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Marianna Klar, Research Associate, Centre of Islamic Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Director of John W. Kluge Center and Office of Scholarly Programs, Library of Congress, USA. Mustansir Mir, University Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Youngstown State University, Ohio, USA. Khaleel Mohammed, Professor of Religion, San Diego State
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