The Study of Islamic Origins : : New Perspectives and Contexts / / ed. by Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W. Oliver, Tommaso Tesei.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bjerregaard Mortensen, Mette,; Courtieu, Gilles,; Decharneux, Julien,; Dye, Guillaume,; Grasso, Valentina A.,; Hughes, Aaron W.,; Kropp, Manfred,; Lindstedt, Ilkka,; Milwright, Marcus,; Oliver, Isaac W,; Oliver, Isaac W.,; Segovia, Carlos A.,; Shoemaker, Stephen J.,; Shoshan, Boaz,; Sivers, Peter von,; Stinchcomb, Jillian,; Tesei, Tommaso,
• HerausgeberIn: Bjerregaard Mortensen, Mette,; Dye, Guillaume ,; Oliver, Isaac W.,; Tesei, Tommaso,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation , 15
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 376 p.)

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• I Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Methodological Considerations
• The Current Status and Problems of Islamic Origins
• A New Arabic Apocryphon from Late Antiquity: The Qurʾān
• II Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Historical, Literary, and Cross-Comparative Analyses
• Body Parts Nomenclature in the Qur’anic Corpus
• The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Midrash
• Standing under the Mountain: Jewish and Christian Threads to a Qur’anic Construction
• Mapping the Sources of the Qur’anic Jesus
• The Natural Theology of the Qur’ān and Its Late Antique Christian Background: A Preliminary Outline
• III Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Social, Political, and Religious Contexts
• Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia
• Prophecies Fulfilled: The Qur’anic Arabs in the Early 600s
• The Sasanian Conquest of Ḥimyar Reconsidered: In Search of a Local Hero
• Contextual Readings of Religious Statements in Early Islamic Inscriptions
• The Gods of the Qur’ān: The Rise of Ḥijāzī Henotheism during Late Antiquity
• “One Community to the Exclusion of Other People”: A Superordinate Identity in the Medinan Community
• List of Contributors