This book is a study on the women of Qur'anic sacred history. It presents the Qur'anic revelations on female figures associated with God's prophets from Adam to Muhammed. Revealed narratives and legislation are then pursued through their medieval, modern, and contemporary interpretations. The theological exegetic sources here chosen, all Sunni, include the major classical works as well as, for the modern period, examples of modernist, conservative, and fundamentalist exegesis. For Hadith materia...
Identity, Politics and the Study of Islam (Culture on the Edge: Studies in Identity Formation)
Based partly on a series of posts coming out of the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blog, this volume includes greatly expanded essays by Ruth Mas, Sarah Imhoff and James Crossley as well as new pieces by Devin Stewart, Carlos Segovia, Alexandre Caeiro and Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Russell McCutcheon and Salman Sayyid. This volume, thus, brings together a variety of scholars both inside and outside of Islamic Studies in order to grapple with such questions as: what, if anything, is unique about...
Mustafa 'Ali's Fursat-Name (Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, #135)
by Rana Von Mende
The Development of the Meaning of Spirit in the Koran (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, #139)
by Thomas O'Shaughnessy
Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qur an
by Gordon Nickel
Understanding the Qur'an (London Qur'an Studies)
by Muhammad Abdel Haleem
The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an. In this introduction, Dr Muhammad Haleem, a noted scholar of Islamic studies, examines its major recurrent themes - life and eternity, marriage and divorce, peace and war, and water - and sets out these in the context of the Qur'an's linguistic style. Dr Haleem examines the background to the development of the "surahs" (chapters) and the "ayahs" (verses) and the construction of the Qur'an in itself. He shows that...
From Scrolls to Scrolling (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation)
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms-from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this collection investigate how material aspects have shaped...
Revive Your Heart is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a conversation with one of the world s most recognizable voices on Islam, Nouman Ali Khan. This collection of essays is disarmingly simple, yet it challenges us to change. To revise our actions, our assumptions and our beliefs so we can be transformed from within, as well as externally. It aims to help modern Muslims maintain a spiritual connection with Allah and to address the challenges facing believers today: the disu...
The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: Al-Āḫira (Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān) (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an, #16)
by Ghassan El Masri
In The Semantics of Qur'anic Language: al-Ahira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-ahira 'the End' in the Qur'an. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qur'an's rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of t...
Pen and the Faith, The: Eight Modern Muslim Writers and the Qur'an
by Kenneth Cragg
