Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'an 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'an's political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur'anic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur'an's internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.
- ISBN10 9004211012
- ISBN13 9789004211018
- Publish Date 11 October 2011 (first published 26 October 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country NL
- Imprint Brill
- Format Paperback
- Pages 864
- Language English
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