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Author : Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 052153934X
An introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
Author : Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Qurʼan
ISBN : 1107486033
As the living scriptural heritage of more than a billion people, the Qur'an (Koran) speaks with a powerful voice. Just as other scriptural religions, Islam has produced a long tradition of interpretation for its holy book. Nevertheless, efforts to introduce the Qur'an and its intellectual heritage to English-speaking audiences have been hampered by the lack of available resources. The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an seeks to remedy that situation. In a discerning summation of the field, Jane McAuliffe brings together an international team of scholars to explain its complexities. Comprising fourteen chapters, each devoted to a topic of central importance, the book is rich in historical, linguistic and literary detail, while also reflecting the influence of other disciplines. For both the university student and the general reader, The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an provides a fascinating entrée to a text that has shaped the lives of millions for centuries.
Author : Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139828383
As the Messenger of God, Muhammad stands at the heart of the Islamic religion, revered by Muslims throughout the world. The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad comprises a collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet. The book is divided into three sections, the first charting his biography and the milieu into which he was born, the revelation of the Qur'ān, and his role within the early Muslim community. The second part assesses his legacy as a law-maker, philosopher, and politician and, finally, in the third part, chapters examine how Muhammad has been remembered across history in biography, prose, poetry, and, most recently, in film and fiction. Essays are written to engage and inform students, teachers, and readers coming to the subject for the first time. They will come away with a deeper appreciation of the breadth of the Islamic tradition, of the centrality of the role of the Prophet in that tradition, and, indeed, of what it means to be a Muslim today.
Author : Tim Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107494411
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. Throughout the treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved. Despite its importance, Islamic theology has been neglected in recent scholarship, and this book provides a unique, scholarly but accessible introduction.
Author : Peter Adamson,Richard C. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107494695
Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put forward ideas of great philosophical and historical importance. This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during the 'classical' period from the ninth to the twelfth centuries. It also includes chapters on areas of philosophical inquiry across the tradition, such as ethics and metaphysics. Finally, it includes chapters on later Islamic thought, and on the connections between Arabic philosophy and Greek, Jewish, and Latin philosophy. The volume also includes a useful bibliography and a chronology of the most important Arabic thinkers.
Author : Andrew Rippin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781405188203
The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’an is a reader’s guide, a true companion for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur’an as a text and as a vital piece of Muslim life. Comprises over 30 original essays by leading scholars Provides exceptionally broad coverage - considering the structure, content and rhetoric of the Qur’an; how Muslims have interpreted the text and how they interact with it; and the Qur’an’s place in Islam Features notes, an extensive bibliography, indexes of names, Qur’an citations, topics, and technical terms
Author : Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139801767
The book is divided into three sections, the first charting his biography and the milieu into which he was born, the revelation of the Qur'an, and his role within the early Muslim community. The second part assesses his legacy as a law-maker, philosopher, and politician and, finally, in the third part, chapters examine how Muhammad has been remembered across history in biography, prose, poetry, and, most recently, in film and fiction.
Author : Juliane Hammer,Omid Safi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107433861
The Cambridge Companion to American Islam offers a scholarly overview of the state of research on American Muslims and American Islam. The book presents the reader with a comprehensive discussion of the debates, challenges and opportunities that American Muslims have faced through centuries of American history. This volume also covers the creative ways in which American Muslims have responded to the myriad serious challenges that they have faced and continue to face in constructing a religious praxis and complex identities that are grounded in both a universal tradition and the particularities of their local contexts. The book introduces the reader to some of the many facets of the lives of American Muslims that can only be understood in their interactions with Islam's entanglement in the American experiment.
Author : Timothy Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521780582
Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.
Author : Carl W. Ernst
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807869079
For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.
Author : Lloyd Ridgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107018303
This book traces the evolution of Sufism from the formative period to the present.
Author : Rita Copeland,Peter T. Struck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521862295
Traces the development of allegory in the European and American tradition from antiquity to the modern era.
Author : Juan Eduardo Campo
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438126968
Explores the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of this religion and the way it is practiced today.
Author : Dwight F. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521898072
An accessible and wide-ranging survey of modern Arab culture covering political, intellectual and social aspects.
Author : Michael Sells
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780861546794
Approaching the Qur’an presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or Suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. These early Suras contain some of the most powerful, prophetic, and revelatory passages in religious history, offering the vision of a meaningful and just life that anchors the faith of one fifth of the world’s inhabitants. In addition to these translations, Michael Sells provides an introduction to the Qur’an, commentaries on the Suras, a glossary of technical terms, and discussions of the auditory nature and gender aspects of the Arabic text. An ideal resource for students and interested lay readers, this third edition also includes a new full Sura and associated commentary, a new preface, and a thoroughly updated bibliography.