Title: The silent Qurʼan & the speaking Qurʼan : scriptural sources of Islam between history and fervor /
Authors: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali; Kohlberg, Etan; Anṣārī, Ḥasan, 1970 or 1971-; Ormsby, Eric L. 1941-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Sulaym ibn Qays,; Sayyārī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad,; Ḥibarī, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥakam,; Abū Jaʻfar al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan,; Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb,; Qurʼan Criticism, interpretation, etc. History; Qurʼan Commentaries History and criticism.; Hadith (Shiites) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1.Violence and Scripture in the Book of Sulaym ibn Qays -- The Work and Its Putative Author -- A Book with Multiple Strata -- A Work of Enduring Popularity -- Fragments from the Book of Sulaym b. Qays -- Table of Contents of the Book of Sulaym b. Qays -- 2.Qur'anic Recensions and Political Tendencies: Al-Sayyari and His Book of Revelation and Falsification / Etan Kohlberg -- Questions Raised by Western Studies -- Uncertainties and Contradictions in the Islamic Sources -- The Falsification of the Qur'an According to Imami Shi'ites -- Al-Sayyari: Notes on His Life and Work -- Remarks on The Book of Revelation and Falsification or The Book of Variant Readings -- 3.The Necessity of Hermeneutics: On the Qur'anic Commentary of al-Hibari -- The Silent Qur'an and the Speaking Qur'an -- Al-Hibari and His Qur'anic Commentary -- Personalized Commentaries and the Beginnings of Esotericism -- 4.The Emergence of Gnosis: A Monograph on Knowledge Compiled by al-Saffar al-Qummi -- A Representative of a Double Period of Transition -- Some Significant Anomalies -- Table of Contents of the K. Basa'ir al-darajat -- 5.Perfecting a Religion: Remarks on al-Kulayni and His Summa of Traditions / Hasan Ansari -- The Scarcity of Direct Sources of Information Amid Countless Uncertainties -- Some Historical Points of Reference -- Biographical Elements -- Observations on the Work -- The Formation of an Entire Religion Set Apart.