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This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration. What are the stories of the miracles? What are the contexts which gave rise to these miracles and allowed them to garner belief and flourish? Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena.
Similarities and differences in content and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions are discerned.
Contents
Foreword
Abbreviations
1. MIRACLES AND RELIGION
Definitions
The Medieval Mindset: Milieu, Continuity and Contrasts
Christian
Islamic
Narratology
2. FOOD
A Proto-Miracle: Manna from the Desert
The Feeding of the Five Thousand: Christianity
Jesus, the Test and the Table: Islam
The Narrative Arena
3. WATER
A Proto-Miracle: Water from the Rock
Lourdes, Shrines and Healing
Zamzam, Shrines and Healing
The Narrative Arena
4. BLOOD
Proto-Miracles: Blood and its Contrastive Christian and Islamic Domains
Bolsena 1263: Host > Blood
The Writing in the Blood: Sufi Blood and Hallajian Passion
The Narrative Arena
5. WOOD AND STONE
A Proto-Miracle: The Ark of Gilgamesh and Noah
Ark of the Covenant: The Virgin in the House
The Angels of the Kacba
The Narrative Arena
6. COSMOLOGY
Proto-Miracles: The Standing of the Sun and the Moon
The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima
The Splitting of the Moon in the Qur'an
The Narrative Arena
7. ENVOI
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CINEMA/DVDs
WEBSITES
