The Qur'an and its biblical subtext
By: Gabriel Said Reynolds.
Series: Routledge studies in the Qur'an -- 10
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415778930; 9780203856451
Subjects: Koran -- Hermeneutics; Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Islam -- Controversial literature
Genres: Controversial literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Listening to the text; title: The crisis of quranic studies; title: The scholarly conflict over the Qur'an; title: The method and goal of the present work; title: Excursus: Regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts; title: Quranic case studies; title: The prostration of the angels; title: Al-Shayan al-Rajim; title: Adam and feathers; title: Abraham the gentile monotheist; title: The laughter of Abraham's wife; title: Haman and the tower to heaven; title: The transformation of Jews; title: Jonah and his people; title: The nativity of Mary; title: Our hearts are uncircumcised; title: Do not think those who were killed in the path of God dead; title: The companions of the cave; title: Muhammad; title: Qur'an and Tafsir; title: Exegetical devices; title: Historicization; title: Occasion of revelation; title: Variae lectiones (Qiraat); title: Takhir al-Muqaddam; title: Judaeo-Christian traditions; title: The mufassirun; title: Tafsir and Qur'an; title: Reading the Qur'an as homily; title: The problem of translating the Qur'an; title: Homiletic features of the Qur'an; title: The Qur'an and Christian homily; title: The Qur'an and its biblical subtext.