The Cambridge companion to the Qur®åan
By: edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe.
Contributors: McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.
Series: Cambridge companions to religion
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521831604; 9780521539340
Subjects: Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes indexes.

Barlas is an Ithaca College faculty member.
Table of contents: title: Part I, Formation of the Quranic Text; title: The historical context / Fred M. Donner; title: Creation of a fixed text / Claude Gilliot; title: Alternative accounts of the Quran's formation / Harald Motzki; title: Part II, Description and Analysis; title: Themes and topics / Daniel A. Madigan; title: Structural, linguistic and literary features / Angelika Neuwirth; title: Recitation and aesthetic reception / William A. Graham and Navid Kermani; title: Part III, Transmission and Dissemination; title: From palm leaves to the Internet / Fred Leemhuis; title: Inscriptions in art and architecture / Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom; title: Part IV, Interpretations and Intellectual Traditions; title: The tasks and traditions of interpretation / Jane Dammen Mcauliffe; title: Multiple areas of influence / Alexander Knysh; title: Western scholarship and the Quran / Andrew Rippin; title: Part V, Contemporary Readings; title: Women's readings of the Quran / Asma Barlas; title: Political interpretation of the Quran / Stefan Wild; title: The Quran and other religions / Abdulaziz Sachedina.