The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an

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Andrew Rippin, Jawid Mojaddedi
John Wiley & Sons, May 30, 2017 - Religion - 688 pages

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'ān as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life. While retaining the literary approach to the subject, this new edition extends both the theological and philosophical approaches to the Qur'ān.

Edited by the noted authority on the Qur'ān, Andrew Rippin, and Islamic Studies scholar Jawid Mojaddedi, and with contributions from other internationally renowned scholars, the book is comprehensive in scope and written in clear and accessible language. New to this edition is material on modern exegesis, the study of the Qur'ān in the West, the relationship between the Qur'ān and religions prior to Islam, and much more.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān is a rich and wide-ranging resource, exploring the Qur'ān as both a religious text and as a work of literature.

 

Contents

Discovering
23
Contextualizing
43
Text
59
Patterns of Address
82
Language
97
Poetry and Language
117
Foreign Vocabulary
130
Structure and the Emergence of Community
151
Knowing and Thinking
349
Sex Sexuality and the Family
365
Interpretation
389
Stories of the Prophets
406
Rumı
430
Twelver Shı̄ʿı Taʾwıl
449
Ismāʿılı Taʾwıl
463
Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾan
479

Sacrality and Collection
171
Written Transmission
184
Muhammad
200
ʿUmar b alKhattab
218
Content
235
Prophets and Prophethood
248
Moses
262
Abraham
280
Biblical Background
303
Other Religions
320
Argumentation
333
Application
493
Theology
512
Jurisprudence
526
Contemporary Ethical Issues
543
Narrative Literature
562
Recitation
577
Bibliography
591
Index of People Places and Topics
632
Index of Qurʾan Verses
651
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About the author (2017)

Andrew Rippin (d. 2016) was the Emeritus Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was one of the world's leading scholars on the Qur'ān.

Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He is a leading scholar of Ṣūfism with a focus on Rūmī.

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