"The papers collected here were presented during the 4th Nangeroni meeting of the Enoch Seminar/Early Islamic Studies Seminar..., which took place at the Villa Cagnola, in Gazzada, near Milan, on 15-19 June 2015." -- Acknowledgments, page [7]. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
History, exegesis, linguistics : a preliminary, multi-discipline approach to Ibn Hisham (d. c. 215/830) and al-Tabari (d. 310/923) on the origins of Islam and the Qur'an / Ulrika Martensson. Arabia and the late antique East / Greg Fisher, Philip Wood -- Fallen angels and the afterlives of Enochic traditions in early Islam / Annette Yoshiko Reed -- Cushions, bottles and roast chickens! : more advertising about paradise / Gilles Courtieu -- The seismic Qur'an : on collective memory and seismic eschatology in the Qur'an / Thomas Hoffmann -- Dating early Qur'anic manuscripts : reading the objects, their texts and the results of their material analysis / Alba Fedeli -- Eschatology, responsories and rubrics in eastern Christian liturgies and in the Qur'an : some preliminary remarks / Paul Neuenkirchen -- Conversion from Jewish and Christian milieus to Islam and its influence on the formation of the Qur'an / Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann -- The Qur'anic Mary and the chronology of the Qur'an / Guillaume Dye -- The historical-critical study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures / Isaac W. Oliver -- Christianity in the Arabian peninsula and possible contexts for the Qur'an / Philip Wood -- History, exegesis, linguistics : a preliminary, multi-discipline approach to Ibn Hisham (d. c. 215/830) and al-Tabari (d. 310/923) on the origins of Islam and the Qur'an / Ulrika Martensson.
Summary:
"In recent decades, new paradigms have radically altered the historical understanding of the Qur'an and early Islam, causing much debate and controversy. This volume gathers select proceedings from the first conference of the Early Islamic Sudies Seminar. These studies explore the history of the Qur'an and of formative islam, with the methodological tools set forth in Biblical, New Testament and Apocryphal studies, as well as the approaches used in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian and Rabbinic origins. It thereby contributes to the interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the religious landscape of Late Antiquity," --Publisher, page four of cover.
Series:
Problèmes d'histoire des religions, 0778-6735 ; 29
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