Unlocking the Medinan Qurʼan / / edited by Nicolai Sinai.

• Superior document: Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Sinai, Nicolai, 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān ; 19.; Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (599 pages)

"The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur'an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Nicolai Sinai -- Part I. Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʼan: 1. Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras / Nicolai Sinai -- 2. Lexical Layers vs. Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat alBaqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions / Marianna Klar -- 3. Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras / Cecilia Palombo -- 4. Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras / Nora K. Schmid -- 5. Vocatives in the Qurʼan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations / Devin J. Stewart -- Part II. Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes: 6. The Qibla of Muhammad's Community Reconsidered / Angelika Neuwirth -- 7. Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʼan? / Andrew J. O'Connor -- 8. Law in the Medinan Qurʼan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʼanic Reiteration / Holger Zellentin -- Part III. Studies of Individual Suras: 9. The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʻImrān (Q 3) / Neal Robinson -- 10. A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʼ (Q 4) / Joseph E. Lowry -- 11. Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl) / Karen Bauer -- 12. Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʼan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66 / Gabriel S. Reynolds --13. Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis / Saqib Hussain -- Index.