Revelation in the Qur'an : : a semantic study of the roots n-z-l and w-h-y / / Simon P. Loynes.
"In Revelation in the Qur'an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to shed light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur'an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur'an as well as pre-Islamic poetry, Loyne...
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Superior document: | Texts and Studies on the Qura ; Volume 18 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] 2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Texts and studies on the Quran ;
Volume 18. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Notes: | Revision of the author's dissertation (doctoral)--University of Edinburgh, 2019. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note on Transliteration, Conventions, and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in Previous Scholarship
- 2 Overall Approach of the Study
- 1 Divine Sending Down ( tanzīl ) I : Actors, Spatiality, and Interaction
- 1 Overview of the Root n-z-l
- 2 Spatial Implications of the Root n-z-l and the Author of the Act
- 3 The Divine Sending Down of Non-revelatory Things
- 2 Divine Sending Down ( tanzīl ) II : The Revelatory Message
- 1 The Celestial Scripture
- 2 The Divine Sending Down of the Celestial Scripture
- 3 The Relationship of the Celestial Scripture to the Qur'anic Revelations
- 4 The Primary Celestial Event
- 3 God's Esoteric Communication ( waḥy )
- 1 The Root w-ḥ-y in Pre-Islamic Poetry
- 2 The Root w-ḥ-y in the Qur'an
- 3 Adopting a Translation for the Root w-ḥ-y
- 4 The Chronological Distribution and Literary Contexts of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y
- 1 The Chronological Distribution of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y
- 2 Form-Critical Analysis of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y
- 3 Addressing the Chronological Distribution of the Roots
- 5 The Principal Rhetorical Functions of Divine Sending Down and Divine Communication
- 1 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Sending Down
- 2 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Communication
- 3 The Dynamic Nature of the Qur'an's Self-Referentiality
- 6 The Qur'anic Concept of Revelation
- 1 From Divine Sending Down ( tanzīl ) to Divine Communication ( waḥy )
- 2 Implications of the Study
- Appendix 1: Verses with the Root n-z-l Classified according to Formal Type
- Appendix 2: Verses with the Root w-ḥ-y Classified according to Formal Type
- Bibliography
- Index.