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Islam and its Past

Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions

Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 173mm h 241mm d 22mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN-10: 0198748493
ISBN-13: 9780198748496
Barcode No: 9780198748496
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Synopsis
Islam and its Past: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an brings together scholars from various disciplines and fields to consider Islamic revelation, with particular focus on the Qur'an. The collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the development and current state of Qur'anic studies in the Western academy. It 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. Chapters explore the milieu in which the Meccan component of the Qur'an made its appearance. The general question is what we can say about that milieu by combining a careful reading of the relevant parts of the Qur'an with what we know about the religious trends of Late Antiquity in Arabia and elsewhere. More specifically, the issue is what we can learn in this way about the manner in which the 'polytheists' of the Qur'an related to the Jewish and Christian traditions: were they Godfearers in the sense familiar from the study of ancient Judaism? It looks at the Qur'an as a text of Late Antiquity-not just considering those features of it that could be seen as normal in that context, but also identifying what is innovative about it against the Late Antique background. Here the focus is on the 'believers' rather than the 'polytheists'. The volume also engages in different ways with notions of monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia. This collection provides a broad survey of what has been happening in the field and concrete illustrations of some of the more innovative lines of research that have recently been pursued.

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contributions to the volume are of very high quality and are quite useful in introducing readers into some of the more pressing issues facing students in Qur'anic studies and the early history of Islam. * Alfons H. Teipen, Religious Studies Review * Overall, the book is thought-provoking and sheds light on different aspects of current Quranic research. * Valentina A. Grasso, Garth Fowden, University of Cambridge, Journal of the American Oriental Society *