عنوان

Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community

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Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community

[book]

: Reading the Quran as a Literary Text

\ Angelika Neuwirth

Oxford

: Oxford University Press, in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

, 2014

xl, 470 pages

Qur'anic Studies Series

Index

Bibliography

Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Frameworks -- 1. Not Eastern and not Western (lasharqiyyatan wa-lagharbiyyatan, Q. 24:35): Locating the Quran within the History of Scholarship -- 2. The Discovery of Writing in the Quran: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Late Antiquity -- 3. A Religious Transformation in Late Antiquity. From Tribal Genealogy to Divine Covenant: Quranic Refigurations of Pagan-Arab Ideals Based on Biblical Models -- 4. Glimpses of Paradise in the World and Lost Aspects of the World in the Hereafter: Two Quranic Re-readings of Biblical Psalms -- II. The Liturgical Quran and the Emergence of the Community -- 5. Images and Metaphors in the Introductory Sections of the Early Meccan Suras -- 6. From Recitation through Liturgy to Canon: Notes on the Emergence of the Sura Composition and its Dissolution in the Course of the Development of Islamic Ritual -- 7. Referentiality and Textuality in Surat al-Hijr (Q. 15): Some Observations on the Qur anic Canonical Process and the Emergence of a Community -- 8. Surat al-Fatiha: Opening of the Textual Corpus of the Quran or Introit of the Prayer Service? -- 9. From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: Surat al-Isra, between Text and Commentary -- 10. The Discovery of Evil in the Quran?: Revisiting Quranic Versions of the Decalogue in the Context of Pagan-Arab Late Antiquity -- III. Narrative Figures between the Bible and the Quran -- 11. Crisis and Memory: The Quran's Path towards Canonisation as Reflected in its Anthropogonic Accounts -- 12. Narrative as a Canonical Process: The Story of Moses Seen through the Evolving History of the Quran -- 13. Imagining Mary, Disputing Jesus: Reading Surat Maryam and Related Meccan Texts within the Quranic Communication Process -- 14. Mary and Jesus: Counterbalancing the Biblical Patriarchs: A Re-reading of Suurat Maryam in Surat Al Imran (Q. 3:1 62) -- 15. Oral Scriptures in Contact: The Quranic Story of the Golden Calf and its Biblical Subtext between Narrative, Cult, and Inter-communal Debate -- 16. Myths and Legends in the Quran: An Itinerary through its Narrative Landscape.

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We are used to understanding the Qur'an as the "Islamic text" par excellence, an assumption which, when viewed historically, is not evident at all. More than twenty years before it rose to the rank of Islamic Scripture, the Qur'an was an oral proclamation addressed by the Prophet Muhammad to pre-Islamic listeners, for the Muslim community had not yet been formed. We might best describe these listeners as individuals educated in late antique culture, be they Arab pagans familiar with the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Christianity or syncretists of these religions, or learned Jews and Christians whose presence is reflected in the Medinan suras. The interactive communication process between Muhammad and these groups brought about an epistemic turn in Arab Late Antiquity: with the Qur'anic discovery of writing as the ultimate authority, the nascent community attained a new 'textual coherence' where Scripture, with its valorisation of history and memory, was recognised as a guiding concept. It is within this new biblically imprinted world view that central principles and values of the pagan Arab milieu were debated. This process resulted in a twin achievement: the genesis of a new scripture and the emergence of a community. Two great traditions, then, the Biblical, transmitted by both Jews and Christians, and the local Arabic, represented in Ancient Arabic poetry, appear to have established the field of tension from which the Qur'an evolved; it is both Scripture and Poetry which have produced and shaped the new Muslim community. -- provided by publisher

Reading the Quran as a Literary Text

Arabic literature

Islam

Authority

ادبیات عربی

اسلام

اقتدار

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-- Religious aspects

-- تاریخ و نقد

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Qur'an as literature

Islam-- Relations-- Christianity

Islam-- Relations-- Judaism

قرآن -- مسائل ادبی

اسلام و مسیحیت

اسلام و یهودیت

Neuwirth, Angelika

Institute of Ismaili Studies

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اقتدار -- جنبه های مذهبی

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