Unlocking the Medinan Qur'an

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50969-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 590 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1121 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies on the Qur'an

The Qur’anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad’s emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad’s paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam’s development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur’anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur’an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition.

Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O’Connor, Cecilia Palombo, Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sinai, Nicolai

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Introduction

Nicolai Sinai

Part 1 Literary Features of the Medinan Qur?an

1 Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras

Nicolai Sinai

2 Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Surat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions

Marianna Klar

3 Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qur?an: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras

Cecilia Palombo

4 Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras

Nora K. Schmid

5 Vocatives in the Qur?an and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations

Devin J. Stewart

Part 2 Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes

6 The Qibla of Muhammad’s Community Reconsidered

Angelika Neuwirth

7 Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qur?an?

Andrew J. O’Connor

8 Law in the Medinan Qur?an: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qur?anic Reiteration

Holger Zellentin

Part 3 Studies of Individual Suras

9 The Dynamics of Surat Al ?Imran (Q 3)

Neal Robinson

10 A Guide to the Legal Material in Surat al-Nisa? (Q 4)

Joseph E. Lowry

11 Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihad Surah (Q 8 al-Anfal)

Karen Bauer

12 Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qur?an, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66

Gabriel S. Reynolds

13 Q 63 (Surat al-Munafiqun): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis

Saqib Hussain

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolai Sinai is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His publications include The Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Introduction (2017) and Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: Allah in Pre-Quranic Poetry (2019).