Companion to the Qur an

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-8820-3
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 984 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Religion

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 scholars
- Provides 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 Islam
- Features notes, an extensive bibliography, indexes of names, Qur’an citations, topics, and technical terms

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rippin, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors.
Preface (Andrew Rippin).

Part I: Orientation.

1. Introducing (Tamara Sonn).

2. Discovering (Christopher Buck).

3. Contextualizing (Abdullah Saeed).

Part II: Text.

4. Linguistic Structure (Salwa M.S. El-Awa).

5. Patterns of Address (Rosalind Ward Gwynne).

6. Language (Mustansir Mir).

7. Poetry and Language (Navid Kermani).

8. Foreign Vocabulary (Michael Carter).

9. Structure and the Emergence of Community (Angelika Neuwirth).

10. Sacrality and Collection (Aliza Shnizer).

11. Written Transmission (Francois Deroche).

12. Context: Muhammad (Herbert Berg).

13. Context: 'Umar b. al-Khattab (Avraham Hakim).

Part III: Content.

14. God (Andrew Rippin).

15. Prophets and Prophethood (Uri Rubin)].

16. Moses (Brannon Wheeler).

17. Argumentation (Kate Zebiri).

18. Knowing and Thinking (A.H. Mathias Zahniser).

19. Sex, Sexuality, and the Family (Khaleel Mohammed).

20. Jihad (Reuven Firestone).

Part IV: Interpretation.

21. Hermeneutics: al-Tha'labi (Marianna Klar).

22. Stories of the Prophets (Marianna Klar).

23. Sufism (Alan Goldas).

24. Rumi (Jawid Mojaddedi).

25. Twelver Shi I Ta wil (Diana Steigerwald).

26. Isma ili Ta wil (Diana Steigerwald).

Part V: Application.

27. Exegetical Sciences (Jane Dammen McAuliffe).

28. Theology (Binyamin Abrahamov).

29. Jurisprudence (A. Kevin Reinhart).

30. Contemporary Ethical Issues (Leah Kinberg).

31. Narrative Literature (Roberto Tottoli).

32. Recitation (Anna M. Gade).

Bibliography.

Index of People, Places and Topics.

Index of Qur’ an Verses.

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Rippin is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2006.