The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an

Buch | Softcover

576 Seiten

2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8820-3 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an is the ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life. The volume includes an initial orientation to the text for the first-time reader.

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

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.

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.

Reihe/Serie	Blackwell Companions to Religion
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 247 mm
Gewicht	998 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	1-4051-8820-0 / 1405188200
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-8820-3 / 9781405188203
Zustand	Neuware