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Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an
Contributor(s): Bakhos, Carol (Editor), Cook, Michael (Editor)
ISBN: 0198748493     ISBN-13: 9780198748496
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $118.75  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam - Koran & Sacred Writings
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (1.30 lbs) 278 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Islamic
 
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Islam and Its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current state of Qur'anic studies
in the Western academy. It shows how interest in the field has recently grown, how the ways in which it is cultivated have changed, how it has ramified, and how difficult it now is for any one scholar to keep abreast of it. Chapters explore the milieu in which the Meccan component of the Qur'an made
its appearance. The general question is what we can say about that milieu by combining a careful reading of the relevant parts of the Qur'an with what we know about the religious trends of Late Antiquity in Arabia and elsewhere. More specifically, the issue is what we can learn in this way about the
manner in which the polytheists of the Qur'an related to the Jewish and Christian traditions: were they Godfearers in the sense familiar from the study of ancient Judaism? It looks at the Qur'an as a text of Late Antiquity--not just considering those features of it that could be seen as normal in
that context, but also identifying what is innovative about it against the Late Antique background. Here the focus is on the believers rather than the polytheists. The volume also engages in different ways with notions of monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia. This collection provides a broad survey
of what has been happening in the field and concrete illustrations of some of the more innovative lines of research that have recently been pursued.