Reynolds, Gabriel Said ed. text xxu London Routledge 2008 monographic eng

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xiv, 294 p. , [1] pages of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur'anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. Among other things, it analyzes the Introduction : Qurʼānic studies and its controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Quʼrān in recent scholarship : challenges and desiderata / Fred M. Donner -- Epigraphy and the linguistic background to the Quʼrān / Robert Hoyland -- Recent research on the construction of the Qurʼān / Gerhard Böwering -- Reconsidering the authorship of the Quʼrān : is the Quʼrān partly the fruit of a progressive and collective work? / Claude Gilliot -- Christian lore and the Arabic Quʼrān : the "companions of the cave" in Sūrat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition / Sidney Griffith -- The theological Christian influence on the Quʼrān : a reflection / Samir Khalil Samir -- Mary in the Quʼrān : a reexamination of her presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad -- The Alexander legend in the Quʼrān 18:83-102 / Kevin van Bladel -- Beyond single words : māʼida, shayṭān, jibt and ṭāghūt : mechanisms of transmission into the Ethiopic (Geʻez) Bible and the Quʼrānic text / Manfred Kropp -- Nascent Islam in the seventh century Syriac sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi -- Notes on medieval and modern emendations of the Quʼrān / Devin J. Stewart -- Syriac in the Quʼrān : classical Muslim theories / Andrew Rippin. Gabriel Said Reynolds. Qurʼan Commentaries History and criticism Qurʼan Criticism, interpretation, etc Koran BP130.45 .R49 2009 041549169 170616 20170616134948.0