Quranic Studies
Subtitle: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation
Contributors: Andrew Rippin (Foreword, Translator)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: August 31, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781591022015
Subjects: Islam; Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings; Koran; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Islam - General; Arabic language; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History
First sentence: ONCE separated from an extensive corpus of prophetical logia, the Islamic revelation became scripture and in time, starting from the fact itself of literary stabilization, was seen to contain a logical structure of its own.