The Routledge Companion to the Quran offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Quran by both established authorities and emergent voices, the 40 chapters in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture.
The Quran is spoken of in scholarship across disciplines; it is the beating heart of a living community of believers; it is a work of beauty and a basis for art and culture; it is a profoundly significant historical artifact; and it is a mysterious survivor from the Late Ancient Arabic-speaking world. This Handbook accompanies the reader into the many worlds that the Quran lives in, from its ancient settings, to its internal drama, and through the 1,400 years of discussion and debate about its meaning.
Bringing diverse approaches to the Quran together in one volume The Routledge Companion to the Quran represents the vibrancy of the field of Quranic Studies today. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and Islamic studies. It will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as area studies, sociology, anthropology, and history.
This book offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Quran by both established authorities and emergent voices, the forty essays in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture.
Editors Introduction: The Qurans Three Worlds Part I: The World
Before the Quran
1. Late Antiquity and the Religious Milieu of the Qurans
Origins
2. Arabia: Ripe for a New Prophet
3. Mecca and Medina: The Sacred
History and Geography of the Quran Part II: The World of the Quran
4. God:
The Many-Named One of the Quran
5. Humanity in Covenant with God
6. Quran
and Eschatology
7. Abraham and his Family
8. Biblical Prophets: Moses,
Joseph, Jonah, and Job
9. John, Jesus, and Mary in the Quran
10. Muhammad in
the Quran
11. The Praiseworthy (and the Reprehensible)
12. The People of
Scripture (Ahl al-Kitb)
13. Quranic Creation: Anthropocentric Readings and
Eco-centric Possibilities
14. Jinn in the Quran
15. Style in the Quran
16.
Structure and Organization of the Quran
17. Quranic Kerygma: Epic,
Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration
18. Metaphor, Symbol, and Parable in
the Quran
19. The Relationship Between the Oral and the Written Part III:
The World in Front of the Quran
20. Asbb al-Nazl: The (Good) Occasions of
Revelation
21. The Early Commentators of the Quran
22. Fakhr al-Dn al-Rz
Seen Through His Great Commentary on the Quran
23. Tafsr Ibn Kathr: A
Window onto Medieval Islam and a Guide to the Development of Modern Islamic
Orthodoxy
24. The Formative Development of Shii Quranic Exegesis
25.
Methodological Observations in al-Allma al-ababs Quran Commentary:
Al-Mzn
26. The Quran in the Thought of Ibn Arab
27. Sufi Readings of the
Quran
28. Shii Ismaili Approaches to the Quran: From Revelation to
Exegesis
29. Womens Contemporary Readings of the Quran
30. War and Peace in
the Quran
31. Muhammad Abduh and Sayyid Qutb
32. Readings of the Quran
from Outside the Tradition
33. Translations
34. The Quran and Material
Culture
35. The Quran and the Internet
36. The Quran in Contemporary Mass
and Popular Culture
37. The Quran and Kalm
38. The Impact of the Quran on
Islamic Philosophy
39. Political Theology and the Quran
40. The Quran,
Science, and Medicine
George Archer is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
Maria M. Dakake is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Daniel A. Madigan is Associate Professor and Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family Distinguished Jesuit Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
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