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001 2009035977
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008 090831s2010 enk b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aBP130.2$b.R49 2010
082 00 $a297.1/22601$222
100 1 $aReynolds, Gabriel Said.
245 14 $aThe Qur'an and its biblical subtext /$cGabriel Said Reynolds.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2010.
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aRoutledge studies in the Qur'an ;$v10
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 259-282) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: Listening to the text -- The crisis of quranic studies -- The scholarly conflict over the Qur'an -- The method and goal of the present work -- Excursus: Regarding the dates of Jewish and Christian texts -- Quranic case studies -- The prostration of the angels -- Al-Shayan al-Rajim -- Adam and feathers -- Abraham the gentile monotheist -- The laughter of Abraham's wife -- Haman and the tower to heaven -- The transformation of Jews -- Jonah and his people -- The nativity of Mary -- Our hearts are uncircumcised -- Do not think those who were killed in the path of God dead -- The companions of the cave -- Muhammad -- Qur'an and Tafsir -- Exegetical devices -- Historicization -- Occasion of revelation -- Variae lectiones (Qiraat) -- Takhir al-Muqaddam -- Judaeo-Christian traditions -- The mufassirun -- Tafsir and Qur'an -- Reading the Qur'an as homily -- The problem of translating the Qur'an -- Homiletic features of the Qur'an -- The Qur'an and Christian homily -- The Qur'an and its biblical subtext.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xHermeneutics.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.$xHistory.
650 0 $aIslam$vControversial literature.