Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - tension, transmission, transformation ;
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vol. 15
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references
CONTENTS NOTE
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The current status and problems of Islamic origins / Aaron W. Hughes -- A new Arabic apocryphone from late antiquity: the Qur'ān / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Body parts nomenclature in the Qur'anic corpus / Manfred Kropp -- The Queen of Sheba in the Qur'ān and late antique midrash / Jillian Stinchcomb -- Standing under the mountain: Jewish and Christian threads to a Qur'anic construction / Isaac W. Oliver -- Mapping the sources of the Qur'anic Jesus / Guillaume Dye -- The natural theology of the Qur'ān and its late antique Christian background: a preliminary outline / Julien Decharneux -- Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia / Gilles Courtieu, Carlos A. Segovia -- Prophecies fulfilled: the Qur'anic Arabs in the early 600s / Peter von Sivers -- The Sasanian conquest of Himyar reconsidered: in search of a local hero / Boaz Shoshan -- Contextual readings of religious statements in early Islamic inscriptions / Marcus Milwright -- The gods of the Qur'ān: the rise of Hijāzī Henotheism during late antiquity / Valentina A. Grasso -- "One community to the exclusion of other people": a superordinate identity in the Medinan community / Ilkka Lindstedt
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The study of Islam's origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting. At the same time, a renewed attention is being paid to the very plausible pre-canonical redactional and editorial stages of the Qur'an, a book whose core many contemporary scholars agree to be formed by various independent writings in which encrypted passages from the OT Pseudepigrapha, the NT Apocrypha, and other ancient writings of Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean provenance may be found. Likewise, the earliest Islamic community is presently regarded by many scholars as a somewhat undetermined monotheistic group that evolved from an original Jewish-Christian milieu into a distinct Muslim group perhaps much later than commonly assumed and in a rather unclear way. The following volume gathers select studies that were originally shared at the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies aim at exploring afresh the dawn and early history of Islam with the tools of biblical criticism as well as the approaches set forth in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian, and Rabbinic origins, thereby contributing to the renewed, interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the complex processes of religious identity formation during Late Antiquity.