The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an is a reader’s guide, a true companion for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur’an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life.
- Comprises over 30 original essays by leading scholars
- Provides exceptionally broad coverage - considering the structure, content and rhetoric of the Qur’an; how Muslims have interpreted the text and how they interact with it; and the Qur’an’s place in Islam
- Features notes, an extensive bibliography, indexes of names, Qur’an citations, topics, and technical terms
List of Contributors.
Preface (Andrew Rippin).
Part I: Orientation.
1. Introducing (Tamara Sonn).
2. Discovering (Christopher Buck).
3. Contextualizing (Abdullah Saeed).
Part II: Text.
4. Linguistic Structure (Salwa M.S. El-Awa).
5. Patterns of Address (Rosalind Ward Gwynne).
6. Language (Mustansir Mir).
7. Poetry and Language (Navid Kermani).
8. Foreign Vocabulary (Michael Carter).
9. Structure and the Emergence of Community (Angelika Neuwirth).
10. Sacrality and Collection (Aliza Shnizer).
11. Written Transmission (Francois Deroche).
12. Context: Muhammad (Herbert Berg).
13. Context: 'Umar b. al-Khattab (Avraham Hakim).
Part III: Content.
14. God (Andrew Rippin).
15. Prophets and Prophethood (Uri Rubin)].
16. Moses (Brannon Wheeler).
17. Argumentation (Kate Zebiri).
18. Knowing and Thinking (A.H. Mathias Zahniser).
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