The Study of Islamic Origins: New Perspectives and Contexts

Published by De Gruyter 2021

The Study of Islamic Origins

New Perspectives and Contexts

Edited by: Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen , Guillaume Dye , Isaac W. Oliver and Tommaso Tesei

Volume 15 in the series Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110675498

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The study of Islam’s origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting. At the same time, a renewed attention is being paid to the very plausible pre-canonical redactional and editorial stages of the Qur'an, a book whose core many contemporary scholars agree to be formed by various independent writings in which encrypted passages from the OT Pseudepigrapha, the NT Apocrypha, and other ancient writings of Jewish, Christian, and Manichaean provenance may be found. Likewise, the earliest Islamic community is presently regarded by many scholars as a somewhat undetermined monotheistic group that evolved from an original Jewish-Christian milieu into a distinct Muslim group perhaps much later than commonly assumed and in a rather unclear way. The following volume gathers select studies that were originally shared at the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. These studies aim at exploring afresh the dawn and early history of Islam with the tools of biblical criticism as well as the approaches set forth in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian, and Rabbinic origins, thereby contributing to the renewed, interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the complex processes of religious identity formation during Late Antiquity.

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G. Dye, M. Bjerregaard Mortensen, University of Brussels, I. W. Oliver, Bradley University, T. Tesei, Duke Kunshan University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
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Introduction Mette Bjerregaard Mortensen, Guillaume Dye, Isaac W Oliver and Tommaso Tesei Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Methodological Considerations
The Current Status and Problems of Islamic Origins Aaron W. Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
A New Arabic Apocryphon from Late Antiquity: The Qurʾān Stephen J. Shoemaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
II Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Historical, Literary, and Cross-Comparative Analyses
Body Parts Nomenclature in the Qur’anic Corpus Manfred Kropp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Midrash Jillian Stinchcomb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Standing under the Mountain: Jewish and Christian Threads to a Qur’anic Construction Isaac W. Oliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Mapping the Sources of the Qur’anic Jesus Guillaume Dye Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
The Natural Theology of the Qur’ān and Its Late Antique Christian Background: A Preliminary Outline Julien Decharneux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
III Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Social, Political, and Religious Contexts
Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia Gilles Courtieu and Carlos A. Segovia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Prophecies Fulfilled: The Qur’anic Arabs in the Early 600s Peter von Sivers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
The Sasanian Conquest of Ḥimyar Reconsidered: In Search of a Local Hero Boaz Shoshan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Contextual Readings of Religious Statements in Early Islamic Inscriptions Marcus Milwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
The Gods of the Qur’ān: The Rise of Ḥijāzī Henotheism during Late Antiquity Valentina A. Grasso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
“One Community to the Exclusion of Other People”: A Superordinate Identity in the Medinan Community Ilkka Lindstedt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in Quaranic, Islamic, Biblical and Religious Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 376
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Quran; Islam; Muhammad; Late Antiquity

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Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110675498

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Published: November 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110675436

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Published: May 8, 2023
ISBN: 9783111258720