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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Foreword by Abdolkarim Soroush
List of abbreviations
Map: locations cited in the present volume
Introduction: The golden age of Qurʾānic studies?1
PART I. Method in Qurʾānic studies
1. The historian, the believer, and the Qurʾān1
2. Studies in Qurʾānic vocabulary: The problem of the dictionary
3. Towards understanding the Qurʾān’s worldview: An autobiographical reflection
PART II. The Qurʾān and material evidence
4. The Jews of the Hijaz in the Qurʾān and in their inscriptions1
5. The usage of Ancient South Arabian and other Arabian languages as an etymological source for Qurʾānic vocabulary
6. Vowel letters and ortho-epic writing in the Qurʾān
PART III. Qurʾānic vocabulary
7. Hapaxes in the Qurʾān: identifying and cataloguing lone words (and loanwords)1
8. Tripartite, but anti-Trinitarian formulas in the Qurʾānic corpus, possibly pre-Qurʾānic.
9. Angels, stars, death, the soul, horses, bows – or women?: The opening verses of Qurʾān 79
10. Al-Najm (Q 53), Chapter of the Star: A new Syro-Aramaic reading of Verses 1 to 18
PART IV. The Qurʾān and its religious context
11. Al-Naṣārā in the Qurʾān: A hermeneutical reflection
12. The mysterious letters and other formal features of the Qurʾān in light of Greek and Babylonian oracular texts
13. Does the Qurʾān deny or assert Jesus’s crucifixion and death?1
14. Early Christian Arabic texts: Evidence for non-ʿUthmānic Qurʾān codices, or early approaches to the Qurʾān?1
15. “Has God sent a mortal as a messenger?” (Q 17:95): Messengers and angels in the Qurʾān
PART V. The Qurʾān and Biblical literature
16. Is there a notion of “divine election” in the Qurʾān?
17. Lot’s daughters in the Qurʾān: An investigation through the lens of intertextuality1
18. Joseph among the Ishmaelites: Q 12 in light of Syriac sources1
19. Condemnation in the Qurʾān and the Syriac Gospel of Matthew
20. The Qurʾānic Pharaoh1
Bibliography
Index of Qurʾānic citations and references
Index of people, places and subjects
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