The Semantics Of Qurʾanic Language Al Āḫira

Author : Ghassan el Masri
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004428034

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The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira by Ghassan el Masri Pdf

In The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qurʾān’s rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-āḫira, and concludes that the concept is polysemous, and tolerates a large variety of interpretations. The work is unique in that it draws extensively on Biblical material and presents a plethora of pre-Islamic poetry verses in the analysis of the concept.

Author : Roberto Tottoli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110771329

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The Qur’an: A Guidebook by Roberto Tottoli Pdf

The Qur’an: A Guidebook is an updated English version of the work appeared in Italian (Rome 2021) Leggere e studiare il Corano which deals with the contents of the Qur’an, the style and formal features of the text, the history and fixation of it and an poutline of the reception in Islamic literature. The aim of the work is to give a reader a description of what he/she can find in the Islamic holy text and the state of the critical debates on all the topics dealt with, focusing mainly on the growing scholarly literature which appeared in the last 30 years. As such, the work is unique in combining the aim to give comprehensive information on the topic and, at the same, time, reconstruct the critical debate in a balanced outline also emphasizing confessional approaches and the dynamics in the study of the Qur’an. There is nothing similar in contemporary scholarship and the book is a handbook for students and scholars of Islam but also for readers in religious studies who need to know how the main questions related to the Islamic text have been discussed in recent scholarship.

Author : Nicolai Sinai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004509702

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Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an by Nicolai Sinai Pdf

The Medinan layer of the Qur’an occupies a key position in the formative period of Islam yet poses substantial interpretive challenges. This volume exemplifies a rich array of scholarly approaches to the Medinan Qur’an’s distinctive textual, literary, and theological features.

Author : Simon P. Loynes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004452978

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Revelation in the Qur’an by Simon P. Loynes Pdf

In Revelation in the Qur’an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y, which sheds new light on the modalities of revelation in the Qur’an.

Author : Amikam Elad
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004296220

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The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762 by Amikam Elad Pdf

In his book, Amikam Elad offers a detailed study of the revolt of the Alid al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762 and the relations between the early Abassids and the different Talibi families, mainly the Hasanis and the Husaynis.

Author : David Hollenberg,Christoph Rauch,Sabine Schmidtke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004289765

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The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition by David Hollenberg,Christoph Rauch,Sabine Schmidtke Pdf

The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition offers new scholarly contributions to the study of the manuscript codex and Zaydi scholastic culture in Yemen from the rise of the Islam to the modern period.

Author : Racha el Omari
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004259683

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The Theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Balkhī/al-Kaʿbī (d. 319/931) by Racha el Omari Pdf

This is the first comprehensive monograph on the theology of Abū l-Qāsim al-Kaʿbī al-Balkhī (d. 319/931), a leading Muʿtazilī who flourished at the end of the Baghdādī school and at the beginning of the scholastic phase of Muʿtazilī history.

Author : Nevin Reda
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773548862

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The Al-Baqara Crescendo by Nevin Reda Pdf

A study of the poetics and hermeneutics of the Qur?an's narrative structure, focusing on Surat al-Baqara.

Author : Angelika Neuwirth,Nicolai Sinai,Michael Marx
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047430322

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The Qurʾān in Context by Angelika Neuwirth,Nicolai Sinai,Michael Marx Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Cook,Carol Bakhos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198748496

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Islam and Its Past by Michael Cook,Carol Bakhos Pdf

This collection brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current state of Qur'anic studies in the Western academy, and shows how interest in the field has recently grown, how the ways in which it is cultivated have changed, how it has ramified, and how difficult it now is for any one scholar to keep abreast of it.

Author : Stefan Sperl,C. Shackle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Qasidas
ISBN : 9004103872

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Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa by Stefan Sperl,C. Shackle Pdf

Author : Todd Lawson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786072283

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The Quran, Epic and Apocalypse by Todd Lawson Pdf

How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation? What is it about the text that inspires such devotion and commitment in the reader/believer? Todd Lawson explores how the timeless literary genres of epic and apocalypse bear religious meaning in the Quran, communicating the sense of divine presence, urgency and truth. Grounding his approach in the universal power of story and myth, he embarks upon a fascinating inquiry into the unique power of one of the most loved, widely read and recited books in the world.

Author : Arthur P. Mendel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Alienation (Social psychology)
ISBN : 0472086367

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Vision and Violence by Arthur P. Mendel Pdf

Arthur P. Mendel argues that throughout history man has worried about the Apocalypse, a phenomenon that has changed from God to reason, to history, and then to nature. He calls for a more modest and humane philosophy with regard to the Earth.'

Author : Mark E. Amsler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027286031

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Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages by Mark E. Amsler Pdf

This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis, encyclopedic writing, theology, and philosophy. Read through the frame of poststructuralist analysis of discourse and the philosophy of science, the procedure of the ars grammatica are interpreted as overlapping genres (commentary, glossary, encyclopedia, exegesis) which use different verbal or extraverbal criteria to explain the origins and significations of words and which establish different epistemological frames within which an etymological account of language is situated. The study also includes many translations of heretofore untranslated passages from Latin grammatical and exegetical writings.

Author : Shemaryahu Talmon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004677036

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Literary Studies in the Hebrew Bible by Shemaryahu Talmon Pdf

The studies assembled in this volume focus on two issues: firstly, the analysis and illustration of literary techniques employed by authors and compilers of the books of the Hebrew bible. In several instances, their development is followed into the early post-biblical Qumran writings and Apocrypha. Thus, the essays in this section relate to biblical literature qua literature, an issue which has especially attracted scholars in the field of recent times. In a second group of essays, the author sets out to probe the interconnection of literature and society in biblical Israel. Literary patterns, foremost motifs, are analyzed in the attempt to extract from them facets of underlying conceptual or speculative thought. Since biblical authors refrained, on the whole, from presenting systematically their world of ideas, the proposed evaluation of literary patterns may help in better gauging the conceptual universe of Israel in the biblical period