Routledge Studies in the Qur'an
About the Book Series
In its examination of critical issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'an and its commentaries, this series targets the disciplines of archaeology, history, textual history, anthropology, theology and literary criticism. The contemporary relevance of the Qur'an in the Muslim world, its role in politics and in legal debates are also dealt with, as are debates surrounding Quranic studies in the Muslim world.
Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an: Tafsir and Social Concerns in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Majid Daneshgar
March 28, 2019
Shaykh Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qurʾān. A pioneering scholar in terms of familiarising the people of his time with many previously neglected matters regarding Islam and science, his publications shocked the Cairo ...
Mary in the Qur'an: A Literary Reading
1st Edition
By Hosn Abboud
November 07, 2016
Providing an analysis of the complete story of Mary in its liturgical, narrative and rhetorical contexts, this literary reading is a prerequisite to any textual reading of the Qur’an whether juristic, theological, or otherwise. intertextuality between the Old Testament, New Testament and the Qur’...
The Qur'an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions
1st Edition
By Emran El-Badawi
March 03, 2016
This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur’ān and the Aramaic Gospels, i.e. the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects. It builds upon the work of traditional Muslim scholars, including al-Biqā‘ī (d. ca. 808/1460) and al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505)...
New Perspectives on the Qur'an: The Qur'an in its Historical Context 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriel Reynolds
March 07, 2014
This book continues the work of The Qur’ān in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’ān and its origins, looking beyond medieval Islamic traditions to present the Qur’ān’s own conversation with the religions and literatures...
Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary
1st Edition
By Bruce Fudge
March 07, 2014
The work of the twelfth-century Shi’ite scholar al-Tabrisi, Majma’ al-bayan, is one of the most important works of medieval commentary on the Qur’an, and is still in use today. This work is an in-depth case study of Islamic exegetical methods and an exploration of the nature of scriptural ...
Interpreting al-Tha'labi's Tales of the Prophets: Temptation, Responsibility and Loss
1st Edition
By Marianna Klar
June 24, 2013
Al-Tha’labi was a renowned Qur’anic scholar of the fifth/eleventh century, and his ‘Ara’is al-majalis is arguably the finest and most widely consulted example of the Islamic qisas al-anbiya’ genre. Drawing on primary Arabic sources, Klar applies modern critical methods in order to explore the ...
The Qur'an and its Biblical Subtext
1st Edition
By Gabriel Said Reynolds
March 15, 2012
This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur’ān must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text is best read in light of Christian and Jewish scripture. The Qur’ān, in its use of allusions, ...
Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature
1st Edition
By Roberto Tottoli
July 24, 2009
Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur'anic concept of prophetology. Part 2 is a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing...
Logic, Rhetoric and Legal Reasoning in the Qur'an: God's Arguments
1st Edition
By Rosalind Ward Gwynne
June 09, 2009
Muslims have always used verses from the Qur'an to support opinions on law, theology, or life in general, but almost no attention has been paid to how the Qur'an presents its own precepts as conclusions proceeding from reasoned arguments. Whether it is a question of God's powers of creation, the ...
Textual Relations in the Qur'an: Relevance, Coherence and Structure
1st Edition
By Salwa M. El-Awa
June 09, 2009
Representing a new development in the study of Qur'anic text, this book tackles the issue of Qur'anic text structure by fusing the fields of linguistics and Qur'anic studies. The Qur'an contains many long suras covering diverse topics but with no apparent common context within which such variety ...
Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran
1st Edition
By Issa J Boullata
June 08, 2009
This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments of it belonging to one historical period of its revelation; these studies concentrate ...
Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis
1st Edition
By Brannon M. Wheeler
April 29, 2009
Relating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the ...