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The Qur'⁻an and its biblical subtext /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reynolds, Gabriel Said
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Routledge studies in the Qurʼān ; 10.
Subjects:
Qurʼan > Hermeneutics.
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History.
Islam > Controversial literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Listening to the text
  • Pt. 1. The crisis of qur'anic studies
  • The scholarly conflict over the Qur'an
  • The format of the present work
  • Excursus: Regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts
  • Pt. 2 Qur'anic case studies
  • The prostration of the angels
  • al-Shayan al-Rajim
  • Adam and feathers
  • Abraham the gentile monotheist
  • The laughter of Abraham's wife
  • Haman and the tower to heaven
  • The transformation of Jews
  • Jonah and his people
  • The nativity of Mary
  • "Our hearts are uncircumcised"
  • "Do not think those who were killed in the path of God dead"
  • The companions of the cave
  • Muhammad
  • Pt. 3. Qur'an and Tafsir
  • Exegetical devices
  • Story-telling
  • Occasion of revelation
  • Variae lectiones (Qira'at)
  • Ta'khir al-Muqaddam
  • Judaeo-Christian material-- The mufassirun
  • Tafsir and Qur'an
  • Pt. 4. Reading the Qur'an as homily
  • The problem of translating the Qur'an
  • Homiletic features of the Qur'an
  • The Qur'an and Christian homily
  • The Qur'an and its biblical subtext.