In this book, renowned Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth presents key features of her course on The Koran as a Text of Late Antiquity. The work transcends polarizing analyses and well-intentioned but superficial attempts to show commonalities, presenting instead the unique elements of the Koran while showing how it emerges from a common cultural space. Her analysis is an exemplary combination of philological precision and cultural sensitivity."

Koranforschung Eine Politische Philologie?: Bibel, Koran Und Islamentstehung Im Spiegel Spatantiker Textpolitik Und Moderner Philologie (Litterae Et Theologia) (German Edition)

Angelika Neuwirth

History

Walter de Gruyter

<p>Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'n 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'ns political, economic, linguistic, and cultural context, while the second part contains a number of close readings of specific Qur'nic passages in the light of Judeo-Christian tradition and ancient Arabic poetry, as well as discussions of the Qur'ns internal chronology and transmission history. Throughout, special emphasis is given to methodological questions.</p>

The Quran in Context (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an) (Texts and Studies on the Qur'an, 6)

Religion & Spirituality

Freie Universität Berlin

Nicolai Sinai

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Michael Marx

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Islam

Brill Academic Pub

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