The Qur'an: A Historical-Critical Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780748695775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Nicolai Sinai

Opis

The Qur'an represents both Islam's historical point of origin and its scriptural foundation, inaugurating a new religion and, ultimately, a new civilisation. Yet the text itself can be difficult to understand, and the scholarship devoted to it is often highly technical. This comprehensive introduction to the basic methods and current state of historical-critical Qur'anic scholarship covers all of the field's major questions, such as: Where and when did the Qur'an emerge? How do Qur'anic surahs function as literary compositions? How do the Qur'an's main themes and ideas relate to and transform earlier Jewish and Christian traditions?

Reading this book will give you the tools needed to work with and understand this vital but complex text.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Background; 1. Some basic features of the Qur’an; 2. Muhammad and the Qur’an; 3. The Qur’anic milieu; Part Two: Method;4 Literary coherence and secondary revision; 5. Inner-Qur’anic chronology; 6. Intertextuality; Part Three: A diachronic survey of the Qur’anic proclamations; 7. The Meccan surahs; 8. The Medinan surahs; Bibliography; Index.