Islamic and comparative religious studies
Subtitle: selected writings
By: William A Graham.
Series: Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion -- Collected works
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vt
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409400257
Subjects: Islam; Islam -- Relations; Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Religions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History and interpretation of Islamic religion: Traditionalism in Islam: an essay in interpretation; title: Concepts of revelation in early Islam; title: The divine saying as problem; title: Transcendence in Islam; title: Islam in the mirror of ritual; title: The Qur'an as scripture; title: "The winds to herald his mercy": nature as token of God's sovereignty and grace in the Qurʼān; title: The earliest meaning of "Qurʼān"; title: Qurʼān as spoken word: an Islamic contribution to the understanding of scripture; title: "Those who study and teach the Qurʼān"; title: Scripture and the Qurʼān; title: Scripture in the history of religion: Scripture as spoken word; title: The indian paradigm for scriptural orality; title: God's word in the desert: Pachomian scriptural practice; title: Reflections on comparative study in religion: "scripture" as case in point; title: William A. Graham: bibliography.