Remapping Emergent Islam

Carlos A. Segovia is Lecturer in Qur’anic and Religious Studies at Saint Louis University-Madrid and founding Co-Director of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar: International Scholarship on the Qur’an and Islamic Origins.

1 / Introduction - Carlos A. Segovia

Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background

2 / South Arabian "Judaism," Himyarite Rahmanism, and the Origins of Islam - Aaron W. Hughes

3 / The Absence of the Messiah in the Qur'an and the Evidence of Jewish Eschatology - José Costa

An Encrypted Manichaean/Messalian Matrix?

4 / The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Redemption, The Solar Salvation: Manichaean Cosmic Soteri-ology in the Qur'an's Archaic Surahs (Q 84, Q 75, Q 54) - Daniel Beck

5 / Binitarianism, Messalianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Early Quranic Milieu - Carlos A. Segovia

Measuring the World's Timeline= and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court?

6 / The Jewish and Christian Background of the Original Islamic Calendar - Basil Lourié

7 / The Persian Keys to Quranic Paradise - Gilles Courtieu

Conceptual Quicksands, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts, and their Marginalia

8 / "Extremist" Shi'ism and Muhammad's Alleged Message - Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

9 / Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'an - Tommaso Tesei

10 / What Do We Mean by the Qur'an? On Palimpsests, Collections, and Inter-Narrative Identity - Emilio González Ferrín