عنوان

An Arabian Qur'ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins

Number

TL49458

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

An Arabian Qur'ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Suleyman Dost

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Donner, Fred M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of Chicago

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

309

Text of Note

Committee members: Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca; Sells, MIchael A.

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-07818-3

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Body granting the degree

The University of Chicago

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This dissertation aims to shed light on the Arabian context of the Qur'ān by using sources that securely predate the Qur'ān from in and immediately around the Arabian Peninsula, aiming to contribute to the traditionsgeschichte of the Qur'ān through a focused examination of lexical and thematic continuities from pre-qur'anic Arabian texts to the Qur'an. The sources that inform this study consist mostly of epigraphic materials written in Old South Arabian, Ancient North Arabian, Nabataean and, to a limited extent, Palmyrene. The image of the Qur'ān this dissertation draws, based on these sources, challenges John Wansbrough's conclusions and the more recent findings of the Syriacist school about the Qur'ān's origins. As a response to searching for the Qur'ān's context in Palestinian and Babylonian centers of Judeo-Christian learning, I argue that the Qur'ān sustains a thematic and lexical continuity from the pre-Islamic Arabian sources that are available to us, and it owes more to the religious culture of Ancient South Arabia and Abyssinia than modern scholarship has evaluated so far.

Religion; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Arabian epigraphy;Early islamic history;Ethiopian christianity;Islamic origins;Qur'an

Cappella, Emilie

Donner, Fred M.

Subdivision

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

The University of Chicago

Call Number

1927908715; 10274401

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[Thesis]

276903

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