The Koran (Qur’an) Books

Book SynopsisThis book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present. The areas of uneasiness and debate among Muslims and non-Muslims alike include Islamic values and identity in the post-caliphate era, after colonialism, and now under Western hegemony.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Muhammad 2. The Measure of Orthodoxy 3. Salafi-Wahhabi Islam 4. Shari’a 5. Women in Islam 6. Charity: Philanthropy, piety and politics 7. Jihad 8. Muslim Brotherhoods 9. Radical Muslim Brotherhoods: The Evolution of Al-Qaeda 10. Al-Qaeda in Africa 11. The Coming of the Caliphate: Islamic State 12. Pan-Arab Nationalism and Islamism 13. Islamic Education Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisUtilising a pioneering theological and hermeneutic framework adapted from both classical Muslim literature and contemporary academic studies of the Qur an, Ramon Harvey explores the underlying principles of its system of social justice.

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Book SynopsisThis book profiles some of the fundamental debates that have defined the conversation between the past and the present in the Islamic world, including: Qur'anic exegesis, Islamic law, gender, violence and eschatology.

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the concept of the vision of God in Sufi Qur'an Commentaries

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Book SynopsisPublished as Dal?l al-Muslim al-?az?n il? muqtada-l-sul?k f?'l-qarn al-?ishr?n in 1983, this book remains a timely and important read today. It explores the interaction between pre-Islamic tradition and modern supporters of continuity, reform and change in Muslim communities.

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Book SynopsisArgues for the compatibility human rights and Islam, focusing on six controversial case studies: religious discrimination; gender discrimination; slavery; freedom of religion; punishment of apostasy; and arbitrary or harsh punishments.

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Book SynopsisAli Akbar examines the works of four noted scholars of Islam: Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Muhammad Mujtahed Shabestari (Iran) and Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Egypt).

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Book SynopsisLeyla Ozgur Alhassen approaches the Qur'an as a literary, religious and oral text to show how Qur'anic stories function as narrative: how characters and dialogues are portrayed; what themes are repeated; what verbal echoes and conceptual links are present; what structure is established; and what beliefs these narrative choices strengthen.Trade Review"By directing readers' attention to the Qur'an's narrative strategies for building relationships within and between some of its most important surahs, Ozgur Alhassen makes a welcome contribution to the growing number of studies focusing on the Qur'an's sophisticated rhetorical choices." -Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University

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Book SynopsisThe Qur'an's biblical foregrounds have long formed a controversial concern within Qur'anic Studies, with field-leading scholars debating the Muslim scripture's complex relationship and response to the Judeo-Christian canon. This contentious subject has largely overshadowed, however, a reciprocal, yet no less rich, question which motivates the present study. Rather than read the Muslim scripture in light of its biblical antecedents, The Qur'an & Kerygma adopts the inverse approach, situating the Qur'an as itself the formative foreground to Western literary innovation and biblical exegesis, stretching from late antiquity in the 9th century to postmodernity in the 20th. The book argues, in particular, that Qur'anic readings and renditions have provoked and paralleled key developments in the Christian canon and its critique, catalyzing pivotal acts of authorship and interpretation which have creatively contoured the language and legacy of biblical kerygma. Structured chronologically, the study's span of more than a millennium is sustained by its specific concentration on four case studies selected from representative areas and eras, exploring innovative translations and interpretations of the Qur'an authored by Christian literati from 9th-century Andalucia to 20th-century North America. Mirroring its subject matter, the book engages a literary critical approach, offering close-readings of targeted texts frequently neglected and never before synthesized in a single study, highlighting the stylistic, as well as spiritual, influence on Western authors exercised by Islamic writ.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 From al-Fatihah to Hallelujah: The Qur'anic Psalter of Hafs al-Quti Chapter 2 "Verily have I Found Allah Oft-Returning": The Qur'anic Poetics of Sulaiman al-Ghazzi Chapter 3 "The Religion of the Messiah in Multitudes": Echoes of the Qur'an across Christian Schisms Chapter 4 "Adheres to the Arabic Idiom": Ludovico Marracci's Qur'anic Vulgates Chapter 5 "By Origin and Language an Hebrew": The Genesis of a Judaic Qur'an Chapter 6 A "Totally Typological" Christian Qur'an: Northrop Frye's Triple Mirror Coda to The Qur'an & Kerygma: "Synthesis of the Word"

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Book SynopsisWhat is the nature of the Qur’an? It might seem a straightforward question, but there is no consensus among modern communities of the Qur’an, both Muslim and non-Muslim, about the answer. And why should there be? On numerous occasions throughout history, believers from different schools and denominations, and at different times and places, have agreed to disagree. The Qur’anic interpreters, jurists and theologians of medieval Baghdad, Cairo and Cordoba coexisted peacefully in spite of their diverging beliefs. Seeking to revive this ‘ethics of disagreement’ of Classical Islam, this volume explores the different relationships societies around the world have with the Qur’an and how our understanding of the text can be shaped by studying the interpretations of others. From LGBT groups to urban African American communities, this book aims to represent the true diversity of communities of the Qur’an in the twenty-first century, and the dialogue and debate that can flow among them.Trade Review‘Contains a very valuable range of perspectives… Students/readers will walk away with an appreciation of the messiness of communal lines and connections, practices of reading, meaning-making, and interpretation, and in some communities, even the embodied and practiced dimensions of a sacred text.’ * Review of Qur’anic Research *‘This lovely collection describes ten different interpretive communities, both Muslim and non-Muslim, of the Qur’an. It helps us to better understand the text that is central to the world’s Muslims, while illuminating their own diversity.’ -- Amir Hussain, Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount UniversityTable of ContentsForeword Reza Aslan Introduction Emran El-Badawi and Paula Sanders PART I: COMMUNITIES OF CULTURE AND EXPERIENCE 1 African-American Communities of the Qur’an Aminah Beverly Al-Deen 2 Nizari Ismaili Engagements with the Qur’an: the Khojas of South Asia Ali Asani 3 The Reception of the Qur’an in Popular Sufism in Indonesia: tadabbur among the Ma‘iyah Community Lien Iffah Naf’atu Fina and Ahmad Rafiq PART II: BETWEEN GENDER AND COMMUNITY 4 Musawah: Gender Equity through Qur’anic Discourse Amina Wadud 5 The Reception of the Qur’an in the LGBTQ Muslim Community Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle PART III: THE SILENT, SPEAKING AND LIVING WORD 6 The Speaking Qur’an and the Praise of the Imam: the Memory and Practice of the Qur’an in the Twelver Shia Tradition Sajjad Rizvi 7 The Qur’an and the Baha’i Faith Todd Lawson PART IV: COMMUNITIES OF TEXT AND TRADITION 8 How the Qur’an Shapes the Sunni Community Ingrid Mattson 9 The Qur’an and the Ahmadiyya Community: an Overview Mujeeb Ur Rahman 10 Why the Qur’anists are the Solution: a Declaration Ahmed Subhy Mansour Afterword Reuven Firestone Index

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Book SynopsisAmong the many challenges of translating the Qur’ān are its unpredictable complexity, evocative associativity, and polysemy. For these reasons, as well as more demanding theological ones, most translations cut, compress, paraphrase, and invent freely. In this meticulously crafted translation of the Qur'an, A.J. Droge takes a different approach by revealing the Qur'an's distinctive idiom in a rendition that strives to remain as close as possible to the way it was expressed in Arabic. His goal has been to make the translation literal to the point of transparency, as well as to maintain consistency in the rendering of words and phrases, and even to mimic word order wherever possible. Originally published in 2013 in an edition with annotations, commentary and other scholarly apparatus, Droge's widely praised translation is presented here as a stand-alone text, with a new introduction, ideal for students and general readers alike.

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Book SynopsisThis new translation of the Qur'an is specifically designed for use in the college classroom, and offers students and instructors, as well as general readers, a one-volume resource comparable to what is available for the Jewish and Christian scriptures. It presents a reliable rendering into contemporary English of the artistry and power of the original Arabic, along with a wealth of supplementary annotations which will illuminate the text for first-time readers, yet still prove valuable to those long familiar with the Qur'an. These notes are replete with cross references, both internally to the Qur'an as well as externally to the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity (including non-canonical scriptures). In addition, transliterated Arabic is supplied for key Qur'anic terms, alternative renderings into English are offered where appropriate, and important historical and linguistic information is provided for a richer understanding and deeper appreciation of the text. Finally, this new edition contains an index to the Qur'an much more comprehensive than any other now on the market. The index, along with a new introduction, set of maps, chronological table, and guide to the pronunciation of Arabic, makes this the edition of the Qur'an all English-speaking students of religion - beginning as well as advanced - will want to possess for their exploration and understanding of Islam's central text.Trade ReviewI cannot recommend a better English translation of the Qur'an for an academic setting. Both Droge and his publisher are to be warmly congratulated. Shawkat M. Toorawa, Cornell University, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies Droge's work provides the field of Qur'anic Studies with a rich and meticulously researched translation that is particularly appropriate at a time when interest in the Qur'an is growing. Ayman Ibrahim, Fuller Graduate Schools, International Qur'anic Studies Association (www.iqsaweb.org) Highly recommended for its critical scholarship and its general usefulness. Likely to become the standard tool in the years to come for courses involving the study of the Qur'an in a secular academic context. Einar Thomassen, University of Bergen, Marburg Journal of Religion The major benefit of this meticulously crafted translation is its extensive set of intratextual and intertextual references. The former cover all the major terms used in the Qur'an, providing the Arabic original word in a footnote, with usages, whether parallel or variant, from other Qur'anic chapters. The latter display an intimate engagement with both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, as well as a range of secondary literature that can be seen to supplement brief or cryptic Qur'anic references. Both sets of references make this an indispensable companion or guide book for reading, engaging and studying the Qur'an. A further, attractive feature of Droge's annotations is the highlighting of subsets or pericopes of each chapter in the footnotes; the reader, by glancing through these bold highlighted passages, can quickly surmise what are the chief elements, as also their relationship, within each chapter. Even the most seasoned scholar, and the most devout Muslim, will learn from Droge's annotated translation what an expanded field of "apparently unique linguistic material" (Jones) the Qur'an provides to its listeners, readers and inquirers. It is a treasure trove of both familiar and novel elements of the Noble Book. In sum, Arthur Droge is to be commended for the extraordinary Herculean effort. Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University At long last, a version of the Qur'an that is willing to introduce the reader to the complexities of the historical formation and secular interpretation of this important text. Droge is to be congratulated for making accessible to the student of religious studies a critical apparatus, something that is all too often ignored in other translations. Aaron Hughes,University of Buffalo Several new translations of the Qurʾan have appeared over the past 20 years or so. None, however, have attempted the depth and breadth of annotation of the entire text that Droge's work provides. Readers coming to the Qurʾan with a desire to compare the scripture to the Biblical text will especially find the extensive citation of parallel passages to be of interest. Droge has provided lucid explanations of unclear passages and significant variant readings, making the ambiguities and challenges of the Qurʾan open to all curious readers. The translation itself benefits from the work of previous translators in conveying the sense of the Arabic original while emphasizing a consistent and straight-forward rendering into English. Andrew Rippin, University of VictoriaTable of ContentsPreface The Myth of the Book Text and context An 'inspired' Prophet A Book 'from heaven' Who wrote the Qur'an? A Qur'an from Cairo About this translation Guide to Further Reading Glossary of Key Names, Terms, and Abbreviations Timeline Maps The 114 suras of The Qur'an Index to the Qur'an

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Book SynopsisExplaining the language and the major themes of the Qur’an, its unique literary structure, and its alleged "inimitability", Gade highlights how it seamlessly weaves together law, narrative, description and parable. With extensive extracts, illustrations, and detailed insights into its textual history, The Qur’an: An Introduction helps those coming to the translated text for the first time and it explains the unique issues that Qur’anic translation raises. Exploring how a huge variety of topics are dealt with in the Qur’an, from gender and conflict, to mysticism, and even ecological crisis, both students and general readers will find this an invaluable primer.Trade Review"[Gade] introduces the reader to many authoritative approaches to the Qur'an and works in a manageable way with actual Qur'anic passages, here in the 2002 Majid Fakhry English translation, to support confidence in reading the text, enabling students to understand how Muslims approach their holy book. Works of this kind are essential to help Western readers make sense of a difficult religious text." * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisExplaining the language and the major themes of the Qur’an, its unique literary structure, and its alleged "inimitability", Gade highlights how it seamlessly weaves together law, narrative, description and parable. With extensive extracts, illustrations, and detailed insights into its textual history, The Qur’an: An Introduction helps those coming to the translated text for the first time and it explains the unique issues that Qur’anic translation raises. Exploring how a huge variety of topics are dealt with in the Qur’an, from gender and conflict, to mysticism, and even ecological crisis, both students and general readers will find this an invaluable primer.

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Book SynopsisShari?a Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the shari?a as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.Trade ReviewThis book explores debates within an Islamic legal tradition about the status of writing and thus of recorded truth. This is an impressive piece of work that draws upon the author's four decades of thought and reading. No one else can move among these Yemeni texts with such assurance, and classic works such as those of Kitab al-Azhar, Sharh al-Azhar and Sayl al-Jarrar are read more closely than any Western academic has attempted previously. ?A formative and distinguished book. -- Paul Dresch, St John's College, OxfordTable of ContentsMap of Western YemenIntroductionPart I. Library1. Books2. Pre-text: Five Sciences3. Commentaries: “Write It Down”4. Opinions5. “Practice with Writing”Part II. Archive6. Intermission7. Judgments8. Minutes9. Moral Stipulations10. ContractsPostscriptNotesManuscripts and Archival MaterialsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisSharīʿa Scripts is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. Brinkley Messick uses the writings of the Yemeni past to offer a comprehensive view of the sharīʿa as a localized and lived phenomenon in a groundbreaking examination of the interpretative range and insights offered by the anthropologist as reader.Trade ReviewA detailed study of the production, transmission, and transformation of scriptural judicial knowledge among Yemeni scholars, judges, and other legal figures. -- Maurits S., Berger Leiden University * Journal of the American Oriental Society *Skillfully recovers the practice of Shari'a law in the highlands of prerevolutionary Yemen. * Choice *Turns on its head a long history of assumptions regarding categories that have largely remained unquestioned. * Reading Religion *A complex and sophisticated book, one that provides important insights into Islamic jurisprudence and legal practice and forces the reader to think carefully about how these might (or should) be understood and explored. * Islamic Law and Society *In this monumental work, Brinkley Messick presents a richly detailed explication of a ground-breaking approach to the study of the textual traditions of shari'a, combining nuanced ethnography of locally contextualized practices of writingand reading with a sharp critical engagement with the work of philologists and historians of Islamic law and society. * Journal of Islamic Studies *This book is an outstanding achievement that takes the historical and anthropological dimensions of shar¯ıʻa practice seriously * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Sharīʿa Scripts explores debates within an Islamic legal tradition about the status of writing and thus of recorded truth. This is an impressive piece of work that draws upon the author’s four decades of thought and reading. No one else can move among these Yemeni texts with such assurance, and classic works such as Kitāb al-azhār, Sharḥ al-azhār, and Sayl al-jarrār are read more closely than any Western academic has attempted previously. A formative and distinguished book. -- Paul Dresch, St John's College, OxfordMulticentury approaches of the sharīʿa have regrettably transformed law into a banal history of ideas without much connection to practice. Messick’s Sharīʿa Scripts instead takes the sharīʿa right from the economy of the local, that of central Yemen, and places research at a micro level. Historical anthropology makes possible the tracing of genealogical lines of power relations, and the depiction of narratives and discourses in relation to local practices. This book, which takes the logic of texts and their practices to new heights, stands out as a masterful contribution to sharīʿa studies worldwide. -- Zouhair Ghazzal, Loyola University, ChicagoWhat would be an anthropology of an Islamic juridical tradition? Anthropology aims to describe the whole as lived. Hence the ambition is larger than the historical genealogies or analytical interpretation of textual scholarship. This book examines both the structure of the jurisprudential ‘library,’ using the techniques of textual scholarship, and the ‘archive’ of day-to-day documentation of life in law, situating documents in the practices of writing and orality. Such an undertaking is virtually unique: the late survival of scriptural practice, the living interface of Zaydī and Shāfiʿī traditions, and the political centrality of Islamic jurisprudence made never-colonized highland Yemen of the mid-twentieth century a unique site for such an anthropology. The result is a mature work that quietly destroys clichés ever reproduced not only by journalism (and political revivalist movements) but also by textual scholarship. There cannot be another like it. -- Martha Mundy, London School of EconomicsSharīʿa Scripts is a work of tremendous erudition and imagination that provides a veritable roadmap for a new anthropology of Islamic law. It is bound to become required reading for scholars, students and the general public interested in understanding the inner workings of legal praxis in an authentic Muslim society. * Cahiers de'etudes africaines *Table of ContentsMap of Western YemenIntroductionPart I. Library1. Books2. Pre-text: Five Sciences3. Commentaries: “Write It Down”4. Opinions5. “Practice with Writing”Part II. Archive6. Intermission7. Judgments8. Minutes9. Moral Stipulations10. ContractsPostscriptNotesManuscripts and Archival MaterialsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisJews, Christians, and Muslims believe that their Scriptures preserve God's words to humanity, and that those words were spoken uniquely to them. This book gives insights into their origins, contents, canonization, and the important roles they have played in the lives of their communities. It explores how they evolved from oral to written texts.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Theology and Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers "This is undoubtedly one of the best single volumes on the history of sacred text in the Abrahamic faiths."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Many readers will appreciate this probing interfaith investigation for the insight it offers into sacred books that both link and divide the world of faith."--Booklist "In today's culture of interfaith outreach, this book, agreeably approachable, offers insights into the parallel and intersecting paths the sacred books of the three great Abrahamic religions followed."--Suzi Brozman, Atlanta Jewish Times "Highly readable...The Voice, the Word, the Books, with its lavish illustrations and adequate index, will prove very valuable for those teaching an introduction to the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, or the Koran."--Patrick J. Ryan, The American "Readers who have some knowledge of biblical history and scholarship will already be familiar with much of the territory Peters surveys. But here that familiar territory borders on a detailed discussion of the Qur'an, and the frontier between these two traditions makes for an illuminating and often surprising adventure of ideas...The depth of the author's scholarship is...evident on every page."--Lawrence S. Cunningham, Commonweal "The open critique, dialogue and reworking of a tradition, which has been essential to the relevance of Judaism and Christianity to the modern world, awaits its day in Islam. In Peters' work you will find clues as to how big that task will be."--Rachael Kohn, Australian Review of Public Affairs "F. E. Peters offers here a remarkably well-informed, thoughtfully conceived, and elegantly written comparative... The scholarship is, in my opinion, an example of the comparative study of religion at its finest. The author's argument is grounded in first-hand, extensive knowledge of each tradition he handles, nourished by wide and incisive readings of secondary scholarly studies, and shaped overall by a clearly envisioned comparative... In my opinion, Peters has not only delivered fully on this promise to mark the histories of the Abrahamic scriptural traditions as a passage from spoken word to text and back to spoken utterance, but also presented the field of religious studies with a model for comparative studies beyond the Abrahamic traditions as well."--Martin S. Jaffee, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "In these days it is especially a pleasure to encounter a gentle, intelligent work, written for the educated general public, that promotes understanding, even empathy, for the other. Peters ... offers new information and insights for practitioners of these faiths as well as for the inquiring and the curious."--Robert W. Lebling, Saudi Aramco World "Peters has made an important contribution to the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."--Barry Dov Walfish, Journal of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Voice from Sinai 1 Chapter 1: Sacred Words, Sacred Book 5 "Thus Spake Yahweh": What Is the Bible? 7 "Then the Lord Said": What Is the New Testament? 17 "Recite! in the Name of God": What Is the Quran? 28 Chapter 2: Book Shaping: The Making of a Canon 38 From Biblia to Book: The Making of the Bible 41 The Making of a "New" Testament 51 The "Old" and the "New" in the Covenant 61 The Collection of the Quran 67 Chapter 3: Reciters, Rhapsodes, and Scribes: How the Bible Reached Us 80 The Matter of Authorship 81 The Higher Criticism of the Bible 83 Composing and Performing 85 The Scribes 87 From Recitation to Writing 88 Authors behind the Authors 90 Enter J, E, and Company 92 The Writing Begins 94 Jeremiah 95 Who "Wrote" the Books? 96 Writing in Scripture 98 The Levites 100 The Masoretes 101 Chapter 4: The Reporters: The Good News and How We Got It 105 Jesus: The Setting 105 The Gospels 106 Extracting Q 107 Dating the Gospels 108 John 109 The Gospels as Documents 109 From Aramaic to Greek 110 New Approaches 111 Community Authorship 113 Paul and the Rest 114 The Apocryphal Gospels 115 Thomas and His Twin 117 Chapter 5: The Poet in Performance: The Composition of the Quran 120 The Revelations 120 Biography and the Quran 122 Approaching the Quran 126 The Cultural Environment 127 Writing and the Quran 128 Writing in Arabia 130 Oral Poetry and the Quran 132 Muhammad, Poet and Performer 133 The Bible in the Quran 135 The Mantic Seer 137 The Oral Performance 139 A Change in Style 140 The Writing Down of the Quran 141 Other Possibilities 143 Uthman or Later? 147 In Sum 150 Chapter 6: The Book in Mortal Hands 152 The Word Made Flesh: Books and Bookmaking in the Ancient World 152 Scrolls and Books 153 Searching the Scriptures 155 From Notebooks to Books 157 The Christians Adopt the Codex 159 Toward a Standard Edition? 160 The Shape of the Page: Chapter and Verse 164 Dividing the Text 164 Marking the Text 167 Suras and Ayas 169 The Sacramental Text 172 Sefer Torah: Torahs and Their Arks 174 Washing Their Hands of the Christians 180 A Matter of Etiquette: The Book in Our Hands 182 Chapter 7: In Other Words 189 The Loss of God's Tongue 190 Targums and Methurgemans 192 Scripture for the Hellenized: The Septuagint 195 Origen: Multitasking the Bible 198 From Old Latin to the Vulgate 200 Hebraica Veritas and the Latin West 203 The Polyglot 208 Enter the Humanists 210 Translating the Untranslatable Quran 214 Chapter 8: Picturing the Word 219 The Rabbis and the Second Commandment 219 Adorning and Illustrating the Hebrew Bible 223 Christian Images 228 Icons and Iconoclasm 229 The Bible with Pictures 233 Printing with Pictures 238 The Reformation and Images 240 The Word Unpictured: Islam and Images 242 Drawing in the Book 243 Chapter 9: Giving Voice to the Word 247 Talking Back to God 248 Reading through the Torah 249 The Scripture in Church 251 Praying the Quran 256 The Scripture as Libretto 258 The Cantorial Scripture 259 The Divine Office 260 The Art of Qira 263 Epilogue. Three Books, Side by Side 271 Glossary 277 List of Illustrations 281 Index 283

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies, Association of American Publishers"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Navid Kermani has written one of the most insightful books on religion to appear in decades.”Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth CollegeTable of ContentsPreface I. The First Listeners II. The Text III. The Sound IV. The Miracle V. The Prophet among the Poets VI. The Sufi Listeners Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe novel, the literary adage has it, reflects a world abandoned by God. Yet the possibilities of novelistic form and literary exegesis exceed the secularizing tendencies of contemporary criticism. Showing how the Qurʾan invites critical reading, this account of Arabophone and Francophone Maghrebi literature develops a Qurʾanic model of narratology.Table of ContentsNote on Translations and Transliterations | ix Acknowledgments | xi Preface: The Ethics of Reading | xv Introduction. The Quʾran as (Inter)text: Embodiment, Praxis, Critique | 1 Part I: Poetics of Piety 1. Existential Poiesis in Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī’s Mawlid al-nisyān | 37 2. Carnivals of Heterodoxy in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano | 58 Part II: Ethics of Embodiment 3. Apocalyptic Aftershocks in al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār’s Al-zilzāl | 83 4. The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia | 100 Part III: Genealogies of Transmission 5. Tense Eruptions in Driss Chraïbi’s Le passé simple | 119 6. Threads of Transmission in Muḥammad Barrāda’s Luʿbat al-nisyān | 141 Epilogue: Poetics, Politics, Piety | 159 Glossary | 167 Notes | 171 Bibliography | 213 Index | 231

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