Revelation in the Qur'an : : a semantic study of the roots n-z-l and w-h-y / / Simon P. Loynes.

• Superior document: Texts and Studies on the Qura ; Volume 18
• VerfasserIn: Loynes, Simon P.,
• 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.

"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...

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.