Nicolai Sinai

Michael Marx

Angelika Neuwirth

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.

Historical and Literary Investigations Into the Qur??nic Milieu

The Qur??n in Context

Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach : Proceedings of the International Symposium in Beirut, June 25th - June 30th, 1996

Myths, Historical Archetypes, and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature

By addressing various aspects of the Qur'ān'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.

Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu

The Qurʾān in Context

Andreas Pflitsch

Literary works are much more than mere illustrations of societal conditions. Literature is the setting in which society discusses itself. In this volume, international scholars of Literary Studies as well as specialists in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish Studies explore the dimensions and ways of how writers, from the classical period to modernity, tackled the values of their societies. From the contents: Religious Norms Advocating / Domesticating Literary Freedom - Literary Norms and the Travelling of Genres - Linguistic Norms: Writing in the 'Stepmother Tongue' - Gender Norms, Inverted and Subverted - Societal Norms I: The Poet Involved - Societal Norms II: Imagining Communities, Debating the Collective.

Forms of Interaction Between Middle Eastern Writers and Their Societies

Poetry's Voice - Society's Norms

The first volume of a world-renowned scholar’s long-awaited Qur’an commentary, now available in English Angelika Neuwirth’s six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure, and semantic message of each of the 114 Qur’anic suras. It brings together the fruits of the past hundred years of modern scholarship and provides access to the aesthetic, theological, linguistic, and semantic background required to appreciate the unique novelty, force, and historical position of the Qur’an. Contextualizing the Qur’anic message in the broader world of late antiquity, it bridges the gaps between the inner-Islamic scholarly world and the academy. Skillfully translated by Samuel Wilder, this first volume focuses on the Meccan suras, the earliest and often the most aesthetically striking and compelling part of the corpus of Qur’anic proclamations.

Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy

The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1

Der Koran, als Text von der Forschung jahrzehntelang marginalisiert, rückt mit dem Bekanntwerden ältester Manuskriptfunde aus San'a wieder ins Interesse der Islamforschung. Angesichts des Fehlens zeitgenössischer Zeugnisse fällt dem Koran als historischem Dokument für die früheste Islamentwicklung einzigartige Bedeutung zu - ein Sachverhalt, der jedoch für die Frühislamdebatte bisher noch nicht fruchtbar gemacht werden konnte. Denn zum einen sperrt sich der Koran mit seiner schwer zugänglichen Gesamtstruktur gegen eine historische Lektüre, zum anderen kann der poetische Text des Koran kann erst dann historisch ausgewertet werden, wenn sein literarischer Code entziffert ist. Dazu werden in der wiederabgedruckten Untersuchung von 1981 sämtliche mekkanischen Suren einer Strukturanalyse unterzogen und literaturwissenschaftlich auf ihre Geneseprozesse hin untersucht, die auch ein Licht auf die historische Entwicklung der Gesamtstruktur werfen. Angelika Neuwirth erweitert den Nachdruck um eine neue religionsgeschichtliche Studie, in der die Ergebnisse historisch ausgewertet werden, indem die Suren erstmals als Zeugnisse einer Geschichte der Koranverkündung und protoislamischen Gemeindebildung gelesen werden.

Die literarische Form des Koran - ein Zeugnis seiner Historizität?

Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren

Michael A Sells

Qur'ānic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān. Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contributions provide close analysis of specific passages, themes, and issues within the Qurʾān, even as they attend to the disciplinary challenges within the field of qur’ānic studies today. Chapters are arranged into three parts, treating specific figures appearing in the Qurʾān, analysing particular suras, and finally reflecting on the Qur’ān and its "others." They explore the internal dimensions and interior chronology of the Qur’ān as text, its possible conversations with biblical and non-biblical traditions in Late Antiquity, and its role as scripture in modern exegesis and recitation. Together, they are indispensable for students and scholars who seek an understanding of the Qur’ān founded on the most recent scholarly achievements. Offering both a reflection of and a reflection on the discipline of qur’ānic studies, the strong, scholarly examinations of the Qur’ān in this volume provide a valuable contribution to Islamic and qur’ānic studies.

Qur'ānic Studies Today

In this book, the Qur'an is portrayed in its first and original manifestation, i.e., as the proclamation of the Prophet Muhammad addressed to his listeners. Angelika Neuwirth shows how the proclamation of the Qur'an and its debate of both the Biblical and the pagan poetic traditions gradually induced the emergence of a new religious community.

Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text

Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific community in the Late Antique Arabian peninsula, one which was exposed to the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires, and to the rich intellectual traditions of rabbinic Judaism, early Christianity, and Gnosticism. A central goal of the book is to eliminate the notion of the Qur'an as being a-historical. She argues that it is, in fact, highly aware of its place in late antiquity and is capable of yielding valuable historical information. By emphasizing the liturgical function of the Qur'an, Neuwirth allows readers to see the text as an evolving oral tradition within the community before it became collected and codified as a book. This analysis sheds much needed light on the development of the Qur'an's historical, theological, and political outlook. The book's final chapters analyze the relationship of the Qur'an to the Bible, to Arabic poetic traditions, and, more generally, to late antique culture and rhetorical forms. By providing a new introduction to the Qur'an, one that uniquely challenges current ideas about its emergence and development, The Qur'an and Late Antiquity bridges the gap between Eastern and Western approaches to this sacred text.

A Shared Heritage

The Qur'an and Late Antiquity

This volume assembles the papers read at a symposium on the diverse forms of literature reception and intertextuality in Middle Eastern literatures and Arabic literature in particular. Arabic studies are continuously confronted with powerful traditions and notions of canon. Yet questions of intertextuality have only rarely been systematically pursued and a comprehensive study in the various modes of literary reception is equally missed. This book intends to alert to a desideratum in that subject.

Near Eastern Writers Reading Literature : Dedicated to Renate Jacobi

Reflections on Reflections

Börte Sagaster

Michael Hess

Judith Pfeiffer

Die Reihe Istanbuler Texte und Studien (ITS) ist eine Buchreihe des Orient-Instituts Istanbul. Das Institut ist ein turkologisches und regional-wissenschaftliches Forschungsinstitut im Verbund der Max Weber Stiftung. In enger Kooperation mit turkischen und internationalen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern widmet es sich einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Forschungsgebiete. Ausserdem ist das Orient-Institut Istanbul aktiv auf dem Gebiet des wissenschaftlichen Austausches zwischen Deutschland und der Turkei. Der 4. Band dieser Reihe beinhaltet: "Ghazal as World Literature II: From a Literary Genre to a Great Tradition. The Ottoman Gazel in Context".

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