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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions
The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to
postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in
the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later
convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal
missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's
development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they
demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The
volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges
posed by this part of the Qur'an, including its distinctive
literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late
antique traditions, and the question of oral composition.
Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph
E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O'Connor, Cecilia Palombo,
Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S.
Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.
From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is
a six volume collection of Daiber's scattered writings, journal
articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic
translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science,
Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies.
It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are
catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and
films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the
preceding volumes.
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