عنوان

Ascetic and Nonascetic Layers in the Qurʾan:

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LA122913

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Ascetic and Nonascetic Layers in the Qurʾan:

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[Article]

Other Title Information

A Case Study

First Statement of Responsibility

Guillaume Dye

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Using the methods of redaction criticism, this article analyzes two Qurʾanic parallel passages, Q 23:1-11 and Q 70:22-35, and the chronology of their redaction. Relying on discernable traces of editorial work, it argues that these texts of instruction, which initially exhorted their audience to live a pious and ascetic life, have known a process of rewriting, which substantially softened the ascetic injunction of continence present in the earliest versions. This analysis might shed light on the background and development of the Qurʾan and early Islamic piety. Using the methods of redaction criticism, this article analyzes two Qurʾanic parallel passages, Q 23:1-11 and Q 70:22-35, and the chronology of their redaction. Relying on discernable traces of editorial work, it argues that these texts of instruction, which initially exhorted their audience to live a pious and ascetic life, have known a process of rewriting, which substantially softened the ascetic injunction of continence present in the earliest versions. This analysis might shed light on the background and development of the Qurʾan and early Islamic piety.

Date of Publication

2019

Physical description

580-597

Title

Numen

Volume Number

66/5-6

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5276

Subject Term

prayer

Subject Term

asceticism

Subject Term

continence

Subject Term

early Islam

Subject Term

Qurʾan

Subject Term

redaction criticism

Subject Term

Syriac Christianity

Guillaume Dye

Call Number

10.1163/15685276-12341555

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[Article]

275578

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