The Ascetic Qur'an and Its Kharijite Readers /

The Ascetic Qur'an and Its Kharijite Readers /

Research on Islamic asceticism frequently highlights practices and ideas described in premodern Islamic literature on renunciation ( zuhd ). This study redirects our attention to the Qur'an's ascetic dimension and its reception in the poems and sermons of the Kharijites, an early Islamic g...

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Main Author: Schmid, Nora K. (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 24.

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Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Religious Studies.

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Call Number: BP172

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures
  • Note on Translation, Transliteration, and other Formal Conventions
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Ascetic Reading/Recitation in the Qur'an
  • 1 Asceticized Arabia
  • 2 Competing Recitational Paradigms in the Qur'an
  • 3 Ascetic Dimensions of Reading/Recitation in the Meccan Suras
  • 4 Internalizing and Enacting God's Word: Ascetic Striving in Late Meccan and Medinan Suras
  • Part 2 The Kharijites Reading/Reciting the Qur'an
  • 5 Kharijite Origins between Myth, History, and Poetry
  • 6 Internalization of Scripture and Kharijite Identity Formation
  • 7 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qur'an in Early Kharijite Poetry
  • 8 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qur'an in Sermons of Kharijites and Renunciants
  • Conclusion: Asceticism in the Qur'an and Kharijite Compositions
  • Appendix 1: A Tentative Classification of Late Antique Asceticism
  • Appendix 2: Select Sermons
  • Bibliography
  • Index.