Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an /

Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an /

"The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; the...

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Other Authors: Sinai, Nicolai (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 19.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

Subjects:

Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan > Criticism, Textual.
Qurʼan > History of Qurʼanic events.
Qurʼan > History.

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Call Number: BP130.5

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Nicolai Sinai
  • Part I. Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʼan: 1. Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras / Nicolai Sinai
  • 2. Lexical Layers vs. Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat alBaqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions / Marianna Klar
  • 3. Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras / Cecilia Palombo
  • 4. Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras / Nora K. Schmid
  • 5. Vocatives in the Qurʼan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations / Devin J. Stewart
  • Part II. Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes: 6. The Qibla of Muhammad's Community Reconsidered / Angelika Neuwirth
  • 7. Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʼan? / Andrew J. O'Connor
  • 8. Law in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʼanic Reiteration / Holger Zellentin
  • Part III. Studies of Individual Suras: 9. The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʻImrān (Q 3) / Neal Robinson
  • 10. A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (Q 4) / Joseph E. Lowry
  • 11. Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl) / Karen Bauer
  • 12. Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʼan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66 / Gabriel S. Reynolds
  • 13. Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis / Saqib Hussain
  • Index.