Introduction to the Qur'an

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Watt, William Montgomery
Otros Autores: Bell, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1995.
Colección:The New Edinburgh Islamic Surveys Ser.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Historical Context
  • 1. The International situation
  • 2. Life Arabia
  • 3. Muḥammad's career
  • Annex A. Chronology of Muḥammad's career
  • Annex B. Ḥanīf
  • CHAPTER TWO. Muḥammad's Prophetic Experience
  • 1. Criticisms of the claim to prophethood
  • 2. Qur'ānic descriptions of revelation and prophethood
  • 3. The conception of the prophetic function
  • 4. The writing down of the Qur'ān
  • CHAPTER THREE. The History of the Text
  • 1. The 'collection' of the Qur'ān
  • 2. The pre-'Uthmānic codices
  • 3. The writing of the Qur'an and early textual studies
  • 4. The authenticity and completeness of the Qur'ān
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The External Form of the Qur'ān
  • 1. Its name and liturgical divisions
  • 2. The suras and verses
  • 3. The mysterious letters
  • 4. The dramatic form
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Features o f Qur'ānic Style
  • 1. Rhymes and strophes
  • 2. Various didactic forms
  • 3. The language of the Qur'ān
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Shaping of the Qur'ān
  • 1. The theory of abrogation and the possibility of revision
  • 2. Evidences of revision and alteration
  • 3. Bell's hypothesis of written documents
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Chronology of the Qur'ān
  • 1. Traditional Islamic views of dating
  • 2. European theories of dating
  • 3. The sequence of ideas as a guide to chronology
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. The Names of the Revealed Message
  • 1. Signs
  • 2. Stories of punishment
  • al-mathānī
  • 3. The Qur'ān
  • 4. The Book
  • 5. Other names
  • CHAPTER NINE. The Doctrines of the Qur'ān
  • 1. The doctrine of God
  • 2. Other spiritual beings
  • 3. Prophethood
  • other religions
  • 4. The doctrine of the Last Judgement
  • 5. Regulations for the life of the community
  • CHAPTER TEN. Muslim Scholarship and the Qur'āN
  • 1. Interpretation and exegesis
  • 2. The theologians
  • CHAPTE ELEVEN. The Qur'ān and Occidental Scholarship
  • 1. Translations and studies
  • 2. Problems facing the non-Muslim scholar
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Table for converting verse-numbers
  • Table of suras with chronology, etc.
  • Index to the Qur'ān
  • Index to the Introduction

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