The coming of the comforter : when, where, and to whom? : studies on the rise of Islam and various other topics in memory of John Wansbrough /
"John Wansbrough is famous for his pioneering studies on the 'sectarian milieu' out of which Islam emerged. In his view, Islam grew out of different - albeit rather marginal - Jewish and Christian traditions whose intertwinings deserve being studied. In the present volume, which is de...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Piscataway, NJ :
Gorgias Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Orientalia Judaica Christiana ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface / Basil Lourié
- John Wansbrough and the problem of Islamic origins in recent scholarship : a farewell to the traditional account / Carlos A. Segovia
- Part One: Formative Islam Within Its Jewish-Christian Milieu
- Des textes Pseudo Clementins à la mystique Juive des premiers siecles et du Sinaï a Ma'rib / Geneviève Gobillot
- On the Qur`ān's Mā`ida Passage and the Wanderings of the Israelites / Gabriel Said Reynolds
- Prayer and the Desert Fathers / John Wortley
- Friday veneration in sixth- and seventh-century Christianity and Christian legends about the conversion of Nağrān / Basil Lourie
- Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch and the Qur'ān : a contribution to the study of the Judaeo-Christian apocalyptic setting of the early Islamic faith / Carlos A. Segovia
- Part Two: Revisiting Some Early Islamic Sources, Facts, And Interpretative Issues
- The needle in the haystack : Islamic origins and the nature of the early sources / Herbert Berg
- All we know is what we have been told : reflections on emigration and land as divine heritage in the Qur'ān / Caterina Bori
- L'analyse rhetorique face à la critique historique de J. Wansbrough et de G. Lüling / Michel Cuypers
- Mohammed's exegetical activity in the Meccan Arabic lectionary / Claude Gilliot
- The search for Ţuwā : exegetical method, past and present / Andrew Rippin
- Who is the 'other' Paraclete? / Jan M. F. Van Reeth.