Full Description
The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur'an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition.
Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O'Connor, Cecilia Palombo, Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Nicolai Sinai
Part 1 Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʾan
1 Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras
Nicolai Sinai
2 Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions
Marianna Klar
3 Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras
Cecilia Palombo
4 Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras
Nora K. Schmid
5 Vocatives in the Qurʾan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations
Devin J. Stewart
Part 2 Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes
6 The Qibla of Muhammad's Community Reconsidered
Angelika Neuwirth
7 Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʾan?
Andrew J. O'Connor
8 Law in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʾanic Reiteration
Holger Zellentin
Part 3 Studies of Individual Suras
9 The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3)
Neal Robinson
10 A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4)
Joseph E. Lowry
11 Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl)
Karen Bauer
12 Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʾan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66
Gabriel S. Reynolds
13 Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis
Saqib Hussain
Index
