The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Orientation -- Chapter 1 Introducing -- Structure of the Text -- Voice and Audience -- History of the Text -- Relationship of the Qurʾān to Other Scriptures -- Themes of the Qurʾān -- Role of the Qurʾān in Islamic Life: Ritual and Art -- The Qurʾān in Law -- Principles and Practice of Qurʾānic Interpretation -- Chapter 2 Discovering -- Why the Qurʾān? -- Academic Study of the Qurʾān -- How to Read the Qurʾān? -- Revelation and the Abrahamic Faiths -- How the Qurʾān Was Revealed -- Sources of Revelation? -- Major Themes of Revelation -- Reading Revelation -- Assessing the Qurʾān -- Appreciating the Qurʾān -- Applying the Qurʾān -- Academically Assimilating the Qurʾān -- Chapter 3 Contextualizing -- The Broad Historical Context of the Qurʾān -- Outline of Muḥammad's Life as a Framework for Understanding the Qurʾān -- The Qurʾān as "Revelation" in Arabic -- The Qurʾān as Scripture -- Central Themes of the Qurʾān -- Understanding the Sūra -- Understanding Parts of the Qurʾān with the Help of Other Parts -- Concluding Remarks -- Part II Text -- Chapter 4 Linguistic Structure -- The Problem -- Previous Works -- A New View of Qurʾānic Structure -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Patterns of Address -- Particles, Pronouns, and Other Methods of Designating the Audience -- Effects on the Audience -- Patterns of Utterance -- Chapter 6 Language -- The Qurʾān as a "Clear" Book -- Valorization -- Orality -- Genres -- Verbal Economy -- Parataxis -- Repetition -- Imagery -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Poetry and Language -- Author note -- Chapter 8 Foreign Vocabulary -- Attitudes of the Medieval Arabs -- Bibliographical Resources -- The Scope of Jeffery and Supplementary Studies -- A Classified Presentation of Jeffery's Data.

Ancient Borrowings -- Pre-Islamic Borrowings -- Contemporary Borrowings -- New Meanings -- Proper Names and Problem Words -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Structure and the Emergence of Community -- Three Self-designations of the Qurʾān: Muṣḥaf-Qurʾān-Kitāb -- Structure of the Codex: Shape -- Place, Time, and Agents of the Muṣḥaf -- The Oral Qurʾān: The Message and its Communication Process -- The Oral Qurʾān: The Early Meccan Texts and their Structure -- Structure of the Later Meccan Texts -- From Ritual to Textual Coherence -- Becoming a Representation of the "Scripture": Medinan Texts -- Chapter 10 Sacrality and Collection -- The Qurʾān's Divine Origin and Nature -- The Distinction Between the Actual Qurʾān and the Heavenly Qurʾān -- Further reading -- Chapter 11 Written Transmission -- The First Qurʾān Manuscripts -- Experimentation During the First Centuries -- Written Copies of the Qurʾān from the Fifth/Eleventh Century Onwards -- The Qurʾān Manuscripts in Muslim Societies -- From Printed Editions to the Qurʾān Online -- Chapter 12 Context: Muḥammad -- The Revelation(s) of the Qurʾān to Muḥammad -- The Qurʾān on Muḥammad -- Muḥammad's Role in Shaping the Qurʾān -- Muḥammad on the Qurʾān -- The Tafsı̄r of Muḥammad -- The Sı̄ra of Muḥammad -- The Qurʾān's Role in Shaping the Biography of Muḥammad -- Conclusions -- Chapter 13 Context: ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb -- Aiming at God's Mind -- Mutual Agreement -- The Jewish Sources: Moses -- Anticipating God's Revelation -- The Case of the Ḥijāb Verse -- The Case of the Prohibition Against Wine -- The Ransom of the Prisoners of the Battle of Badr -- ʿUmar and the Hypocrites -- Conclusion -- Part III Content -- Chapter 14 God -- God as King -- God is King -- God as Judge -- God and His Covenant -- God of the House -- The Meaning of the Symbolic God.

Chapter 15 Prophets and Prophethood -- Stories about the Prophets -- Status of the Prophets -- Virtues of Individual Prophets -- Ranks of Prophets -- Modes of Prophetic Revelation -- Revealed Scriptures -- Prophets and Messengers -- Scope of the Prophetic Mission -- Aims of the Prophetic Mission -- Signs and Miracles -- Reception of the Prophets -- Polemics -- Chapter 16 Moses -- Moses in Egypt -- Moses and the Israelites -- Mythology and Intertextuality of the Islamic Moses -- Moses and Jacob -- Moses and Alexander -- Moses in Q 18 and 28 -- Conclusions -- Chapter 17 Abraham -- Abraham's Trials -- Battle with Nimrod (Namrūd) -- The Sacrifice of Abraham's Son -- Abraham's visit to Ishmael -- Chapter 18 Jesus -- Introduction -- Description of the Qurʾānic Material -- Miracles -- Death of Jesus -- Deity of Jesus -- Lacunae in the Qurʾānic Portrait -- Tone and Context -- Qurʾānic Commentary -- Medieval Trends -- Christian Backgrounds -- Contemporary Discussions -- Chapter 19 Biblical Background -- The Biblical Material in the Qurʾān -- Adam and Eve -- Cain and Abel -- Noah -- Abraham and Lot -- Joseph -- Moses and Aaron -- Saul, David, and Solomon -- Jonah -- John, Zechariah, and Mary -- Jesus and the Holy Spirit -- Other Biblical Material in the Qurʾān -- Biblical Material not Mentioned by the Qurʾān -- Knowledge of the Canonical Bible -- Departures from the Bible -- The Qurʾān's Assessment of the Bible -- Debates over the Nature of Biblical Material in the Qurʾān -- Chapter 20 Other Religions -- Ambivalent Attitudes -- The Qurʾān and Its Interreligious Context -- Approaches to Polemical Passages -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 21 Argumentation -- Qurʾānic Attitude to Argumentation -- God's Unity (Tawhı̄d) -- Authenticity of Muḥammad's Prophethood -- Resurrection -- Conclusion -- Chapter 22 Knowing and Thinking.

Divine and Human Knowledge in the Qurʾān -- Divine Knowing and Teaching -- God as Teacher -- Human Knowing as Perception, Cognition, and Understanding -- Supposition and Assertion -- Perception: Seeing, Hearing, Awareness, and Recognition -- Cognition: Recollection, Reflection, and Understanding -- Knowing -- Divine Knowledge and Human Knowing -- Limits of Human Knowing -- Necessity of Divine Knowledge -- Conclusions -- Chapter 23 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family -- Chapter 24 Jihād -- Contextual Meanings of Jihād, Qitāl, and Ḥarb -- Qurʾānic Militancy in Historical Context -- The Range of Qurʾānic Articulations of War -- Qurʾān and Jihād in the Contemporary Period -- Part IV Interpretation -- Chapter 25 Hermeneutics: al-Thaʿlabı̄ -- The Détente with Philology -- Tafsı̄r and Pietistic Sensibilities -- Narration and Exegesis -- Exegesis and Theology -- Prophetic Ḥadith and Tafsı̄r -- Tafsı̄r as the Absorber of New Challenges to Sunnism -- Shı̄ʿı̄ Traditions in Al-Kashf -- Al-Thaʿlabı̄ and Medieval Qurʾānic Exegesis -- Chapter 26 Stories of the Prophets -- Introduction to the Text -- Publication History -- Major Sources -- Construction of the Text -- Social and Intellectual Context -- Reception of the Text -- Chapter 27 Ṣūfism -- Chapter 28 Rūmı̄ -- Rūmı̄ -- The Qurʾān and the Mathnawı̄ -- The Mathnawı̄ in Relation to the Qurʾān -- Conclusion -- Chapter 29 Ibn al-ʿArabı̄ -- Using Simple Logical Arguments -- Exploiting the First Meanings of the Words -- Word-Play with the Etymology of Words -- Paraphrasing of Verses -- Creating a Whole Picture through Adding Verses from Other Sūras -- Conclusion -- Chapter 30 Twelver Shı̄ʿı̄ Taʾwı̄l -- Origin of Shı̄ʿı̄ Islam -- Early Debates on the Qurʾān -- Early Exegetes -- Medieval Exegetes -- Modern Exegetes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 31 Ismāʿı̄lı̄ Taʾwı̄l -- Early Exegetes -- Fāṭimid Exegetes.

Alamūt Exegetes -- Ginānic Exegetes -- Modern Exegetes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 32 Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān -- The Evolution of the Exegetical Tradition -- Revolutionizing an Evolutionary Tradition -- Mass Media, Popular Exegesis, and Apologetics -- Modernism and Postmodernism -- Contexts and Conflicts -- Unity and Diversity -- Part V Application -- Chapter 33 Exegetical Sciences -- Starting with Summation -- Comparing Two Compendia -- Selecting Some Samples -- Seeking the Sources -- Evolution and Expansion -- Chapter 34 Theology -- Theology in the Qurʾān -- The Qurʾān as Stimulus to Theological Discussions -- Types of Theology -- Conclusion -- Chapter 35 Jurisprudence -- Defining the Book -- Reliability (Tawātur) -- The Basmala -- Abrogation - The Assessment but Not the Recitation -- Abrogating - The Recitation but Not the Assessment -- Translation -- Hermeneutics: Found Text and the Construction of Context -- The Qurʾān Is Language -- The Qurʾān Is Arabic -- Particles -- The Qurʾān's Context -- Self-subsistence: Manifest and Indeterminate, Figurative and Literal -- Textual Force: General and Restricted -- Ḥanafı̄ Rhetorical Analysis: The Sliding Scale of Clarity and Effective Force -- Conclusion -- Chapter 36 Contemporary Ethical Issues -- Classical Background -- Modern-day Texts -- Conclusions -- Chapter 37 Narrative Literature -- Past: The Stories of the Prophets -- Present: The Life of Muḥammad -- Future: Heaven or Hell -- Conclusion -- Chapter 38 Recitation -- The Qurʾān and the Sunna on the Recited Qurʾān -- Systems for Reading the Qurʾān: Qirāʾāt and Tajwı̄d -- Norms of Qurʾānic Worship, Preservation, and Piety -- Qurʾānic Aesthetics and Performance -- The Recited Qurʾān and Contemporary Islamic Revitalization -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of People, Places and Topics.

Index of Qurʾān Verses.

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