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Rethinking the Qur'ān in Late Antiquity - (Iqsa Studies in the Qurʾan) by Juan Cole (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- How the Qur'ān reflects on and responds to the regional cultural, religious and political currents swirling in Western Arabia and neighboring areas during the great war, 603-630, between the Roman and Sasanian empires?
- About the Author: Juan Cole, University of Michigan, USA.
- 285 Pages
- Religion + Beliefs, Islam
- Series Name: Iqsa Studies in the Qurʾan
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About the Book
How does the Qur'ān reflect and respond to the regional cultural, religious, and political currents of its time? What traces they have left in the Qur'ānic text? This book reevaluates the Qur'ān both in its general late antique context andBook Synopsis
How the Qur'ān reflects on and responds to the regional cultural, religious and political currents swirling in Western Arabia and neighboring areas during the great war, 603-630, between the Roman and Sasanian empires? The book approaches the Qur'ān through six case studies. The first two consider the era 200-800 CE, which classicist Peter Brown dubbed late antiquity. The second two contextualize quranic stories and tropes in the era of Herakleios and Khosrow II. The final pair consider issues in how the Qur'ān was constituted, both physically and stylistically, and also sets these processes in their late antique context. The book treats the constitution of the quranic text, first physically and then rhetorically. The use in the Qur'ān of the technique of narrative apostrophe is for the first time subjected to a concerted analysis. These themes are all united by a concern to understand better issues in why the Qur'ān makes certain narrative choices, how the narrative changes over time, and how it articulates with other texts and perspectives.
About the Author
Juan Cole, University of Michigan, USA.