Description
Book SynopsisAlthough recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'ān in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur'ān’s political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur'ānic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur'ān’s internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.
Trade Review“L’originalité et la richesse des articles de cet ouvrage ne peuvent qu’augmenter l’impatience de tous ceux qui attendent la publication de ce que les chercheurs du projet Corpus Coranicum annoncent comme la première édition critique du Coran.” J. Dean in Revue d’Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 91.1 (2011) “[…] the collection is wide-ranging and very rich.” Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.340-341.
