TY - BOOK AU - Neuwirth,Angelika TI - The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage T2 - Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity Series SN - 9780199928965 PY - 2019/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Qurʼan-Criticism, Textual KW - Qurʼan-History KW - Fernzugriff KW - Electronic books N1 - E-Book-ProQuest / Fernzugriff nach Registrierung möglich; Cover -- Series -- The Qur'an and Late Antiquity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Postscript -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I.1. The Qur'an as the Document of the Emergence of a Religion -- I.2. A "European Reading" -- I.3. The Qur'an as Proclamation -- I.4. Two Misreflections of the Qur'an: Teleology and the Syndrome of Epigonality -- I.5. The "Qur'anic Community" -- I.6. Qur'an Research as Historical and Literary-​Critical Project -- I.7. The Qur'an as Panorama-​Illuminated in Thirteen Chapters -- 1. How the Qur'an Has Been Read So Far: A Sketch of Research -- 1.1. Projects of Biblical Scholarship -- 1.2. A Great Research Tradition and Its Violent Interruption -- 1.3. Retreat to Islam-​Historical Positions -- 1.4. The Qur'an Without the Memory of the Community? New Voices in the "Authenticity Debate" -- 1.5. The Arabic Side of the Qur'an: Mirror of the Arabian Environment -- 1.6. The New Center: Not Book or Prophet, but Community -- 2. The Qur'an and Scripture -- 2.1. "Sending Down," Tanzīl, and "Inspiration," Waḥy -- 2.2. Al-​Qurʼān: Communication of Texts from the Heavenly Scripture -- 2.3. Orality as Theologumenon -- 2.4. Late Meccan Reflections on Heavenly and Earthly Scriptures -- 2.5. Inlibration or Qur'anic Logos Theology? -- 2.6. Medialities of the Qur'an -- 3. The Qur'an and History -- 3.1. History of Communicated Speech -- 3.2. Two Manifestations of the Qur'an -- 3.3. The Conversation with the Older Traditions: Stations of Community Formation -- 3.4. History Discourse -- 3.5. History in the Qur'an -- 3.6. Prophetic Succession, Counter-​History, and Chronological History -- 4. Redaction and History of the Text -- 4.1. History of Transmission up to the Uthmanic Redaction -- 4.2. The "First Official Qur'an Edition of ʿUthmān" -- 4.3. The Imperial Project of ʿAbd al-​Malik -- 4.4. Text History; 4.5. Instructions for Qur'an Reading and the Controls of the Textual Form -- 4.6. Manuscripts -- 4.7. New Qur'an Editions and Translations -- 5. Sura Structures and Chronology -- 5.1. The Sura as Novelty -- 5.2. The Early Meccan Suras -- 5.3. The Linguistic Form of the Suras -- 5.4. Defining Criteria of Chronology -- 5.5. Middle and Late Meccan Suras -- 5.6. Medinan Suras -- 6. The Liturgical Qur'an: On the Development of Cult at the Time of the Proclamation -- 6.1. The Ancient Arabian Preconditions -- 6.2. Cult and Canon in Islam -- 6.3. Emergence of a Liturgy -- 6.4. Cultic and Textual Development in the Middle Meccan Period -- 6.5. Cultic and Textual Development in the Late Meccan Period -- 6.6. Cultic and Textual Development in Medina -- 6.7. From Qur'an to Islamic Cult -- 7. Stages of Communal Formation in the Early Meccan Period -- 7.1. Communal Engagements with Local Traditions: Successively Pursued Discourses -- 7.2. Psalmic Piety -- 7.3. Excursus: Are the Early Meccan Suras Biographical of the Prophet? -- 7.4. The Prophetic Office of Warning of the Judgment -- 7.5. Reflection on the Signs of Scripture and the Signs of Creation -- 8. Stages of Communal Formation in the Middle and Late Meccan Periods -- 8.1. From Real World to Text World: The New People of God -- 8.2. From Mecca to Jerusalem: New Liturgical Forms -- 8.3. Mythical Narrative, Biblical History, and Qur'anic "Corrective": Mary and Jesus -- 8.4. Anti-​Pagan Polemic -- 8.5. New Homiletic Instruments: Morality Speeches and Parables/​Likenesses -- 9. Stages of Communal Formation in Medina -- 9.1. The Turn of Exile -- 9.2. The Discovery of God's Wrath -- 9.3. The Discovery of Ambiguity in the Divine Writing -- 9.4. From Jerusalem Back to Mecca -- 9.5. Qur'an and Martyrdom -- 10. Qur'an and Bible -- 10.1. Similarities, Dissimilarities; 10.2. Looking for Allegory and Typology in the Qur'an -- 10.3. Allegories in the Qur'an? -- 10.4. "De-​allegorizations" -- 10.5. Considerations on Qur'anic Prophetic Speech -- 10.6. Considerations on Qur'anic Narration -- 11. Biblical-​Qur'anic Figures -- 11.1. Actors and Interaction Scenarios -- 11.2. Noah-​His Qur'anic Development -- 11.3. Abraham-​His Qur'anic Development -- 11.4. Moses-​His Qur'anic Development -- 12. The Qur'an and Poetry -- 12.1. Prophecy and Poetry -- 12.2. The Ambivalent Heritage of Poetdom and Seerdom -- 12.3. Poetical Topoi in the Qur'an -- 12.4. Poetical Operations in the Qur'an -- 12.5. Coping with Contingency in Poetry and Qur'an -- 12.6. Poets in the Qur'an -- 13. The Rhetorical Qur'an -- 13.1. The Qur'an-​Document of an "Age of Rhetoric" -- 13.2. "Incapacitating" Rhetoric -- 13.3. A Contest before Polemic: From Biblical Hymn to Qur'anic Paraenesis -- 13.4. Rhetorical Bonding of Earthly Events to the Transcendent Lord of the Worlds: Paraenetic Clausulas -- 13.5. Rhetorical Triumph over the Jewish and Christian Credos -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- General Index -- Citations of Scripture N2 - A comprehensive re-examination of the Qur'an's emergence and relationship to the cultural traditions of Late Antiquity UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/maxweberstiftung-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5683154 ER -