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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Carlos A. Segovia -- Part 1: Re-Assessing the Hypothesis of a Peripheral Jewish Background -- 1. South Arabian 'Judaism', Ḥimyarite Raḥmanism, and the Origins of Islam -- Aaron W. Hughes -- 2. Early Islam as a Messianic Movement: A Non-Issue? -- José Costa -- Part 2: An Encrypted Manichaean / Messalian Matrix? -- 3. The Astral Messenger, The Lunar Revelation, The Solar Salvation: Dualist Cosmic Soteriology in The Early Qur'ān -- Daniel A. Beck -- 4. Messalianism, Binitarianism, and the East-Syrian Background of the Qur'ān -- Carlos A. Segovia -- Part 3: Measuring the World's Timeline… and Imagining the Afterlife at the Persian Court? -- 5. The Jewish and Christian Background of the Earliest Islamic Liturgical Calendar -- Basil Lourié -- 6. The Persian Keys of the Quranic Paradise -- Gilles Courtieu -- Part 4: Conceptual Quicksand, Meta-Narratives of Identity, Texts and their Marginalia -- 7. Divine Attributes of 'Alī in Shi'i Mysticism:New Remarks on 'Heresy' in Early Islam -- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi -- 8. Echoes of Pseudepigrapha in the Qur'ān -- Tommaso Tesei -- 9. What Do We Mean by THE Qur'ān: On Origins, Fragments, and Inter-Narrative Identity -- Emilio González Ferrín.