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Muhammad's Mission
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Muhammad's Mission

Combining vast erudition with a refusal to bow before the political pressures of the day, Muhammad’s Mission: Religion, Politics, and Power at the Birth of Islam by Professor Tilman Nagel, one of the world’s leading authorities on Islam, is an introduction to three inseparable topics: the life of Muhammad (570-632 CE), the composition of the Koran, and the birth of Islam. While accessible to a general audience, it will also be of great interest to specialists, since it is the first English translation of Professor Nagel’s attempt to summarize a lifetime of research on these topics. The Introduction, Chapters 1-2, and Appendix 1 provide essential historical background on the Arab tribal...

The History of Islamic Theology from Muhammad to the Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

The History of Islamic Theology from Muhammad to the Present

A study of Islam. Using the Koran and other primary sources, Tilman Nagel delves deeply into Islamic history as he traces the development of Islamic doctrine. He explores the centrality of the Koran in Islamic theology and examines its canonization process and the central themes of its message. The work goes on to explore the relationships between such Islamic sects as the Sunni and the Shiite, and the two types of Islamic theological literature: the hadith, an oral report or story, and the ""kalam"", a genre that ""develops theological and metaphysical statements"". The author also examines Islamic monotheism; the development of Islamic philosophy in the Middle Ages and its relation to theology; and the relationship between Islam and Gnosticism. Although the focus of the book is on the 9th to the 12th centuries, Nagel demonstrates the ways in which Muslims have carried these beliefs into the modern world.

The Quʼran as Text
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Quʼran as Text

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This collection of papers focusses on the literary, the text-linguistic, the intertextual, and the receptional aspects of the Qur anic text. Using modern methodology can open the way towards a more adequate hermeneutical approach to the Qur an.

The Qur??n in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 873

The Qur??n in Context

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: BRILL

By addressing various aspects of the Qur'?n's linguistic and historical context and offering close readings of selected passages in the light of Jewish, Christian, and ancient Arabic literature, the volume seeks to stimulate a new interaction between literary and historical scholarship.

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 687

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

Der Islam
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 416

Der Islam

Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts ist das Verhältnis zwischen Europa, dem Westen und der Welt des Islam zu einem beherrschenden Thema geworden. Der Islam übt nicht nur großen Einfluss auf die Politik und Kultur außereuropäischer Weltregionen aus, sondern hat sich zu einem wichtigen Phänomen innerhalb Europas entwickelt. Dieser Band möchte dazu beitragen, Grundlagen und Prinzipien des Islam besser kennen zu lernen, Konfliktpotenziale zu beschreiben, Realitäten und Illusionen gegeneinander abzuwägen und Lösungsmöglichkeiten aufzuzeigen. Ausgewählte Länderstudien widmen sich dem Stand von Reformprozessen und Modernisierungsbestrebungen innerhalb islamischer Gesellschaften. Darüber hi...

Self-referentiality in the Qur'ān
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Self-referentiality in the Qur'ān

The Qur'an is probably the most self-referential text in the history of world religions. It often describes its own textuality, it reflects on Arabic as its linguistic medium, it distances itself from other genres of mantic speech such as poetry or soothsaying, it justifies itself vis-a-vis other revelations, and finally it contains important elements of exegesis. Muslim scripture is a message and at the same time often a message about the message. The self-reflexive mood of the Qur'an has only recently become a focus of Qur'anic studies. This collection of papers by a number of experts in the field outlines the role of selfreferentiality for the inner history of Qur'anic recitation, for the canonization of the Qur'anic text and for a better understanding of Qur'anic revelation in its historical embedding.

American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) - Volume 41 Issues 2 - 2024
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) - Volume 41 Issues 2 - 2024

Volume 41 Issue 2 of the American Journal of Islam and Society comprises four main research articles, each of which engages themes of Muslim collectiv­ity, community, and umma from different vantage points. The first article is Rezart Beka’s contribution, “The Reconceptualization of the Umma and Ummatic Actions in Abdullah Bin Bayyah’s Discourse.” The second article is titled “An Egyptian Ethicist: Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh Drāz (1894-1958) and His Qurʾān-Based Moral Theory” by Ossama Abdelgawwad. The third research article for this issue is “The Other Legitimate Game in Town? Understanding Public Support for the Caliphate in the Islamic World”, a co-au­thored study by Muj...

International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 568

International Review of Biblical Studies, Volume 54 (2007-2008)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-04-30
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Formerly known by its subtitle “Internationale Zeitschriftenschau für Bibelwissenschaft und Grenzgebiete”, the International Review of Biblical Studies has served the scholarly community ever since its inception in the early 1950’s. Each annual volume includes approximately 2,000 abstracts and summaries of articles and books that deal with the Bible and related literature, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, Pseudepigrapha, Non-canonical gospels, and ancient Near Eastern writings. The abstracts – which may be in English, German, or French - are arranged thematically under headings such as e.g. “Genesis”, “Matthew”, “Greek language”, “text and textual criticism”, “exegetical methods and approaches”, “biblical theology”, “social and religious institutions”, “biblical personalities”, “history of Israel and early Judaism”, and so on. The articles and books that are abstracted and reviewed are collected annually by an international team of collaborators from over 300 of the most important periodicals and book series in the fields covered.

Philosophy Bridging the World Religions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Philosophy Bridging the World Religions

This is the fifth and last volume of the EXPO-Discourses of the World Religions (World Exposition EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany). The series aims at a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in their theological and philosophical propositions. It sees in philosophy a bridge between the religions and a means to overcome religious hostility and fundamentalism and to further the dialogue of the religions.