In recent decades, new paradigms have radically altered the historical understanding of the Qur'ān and Early Islam, causing much debate and controversy. This volume gathers select proceedings from the first conference of the Early Islamic Studies Seminar. Lire la suite
These studies explore the history of the Qur'ān and of formative Islam, with the methodological tools set forth in Biblical, New Testament and Apocryphal studies, as well as the approaches used in the study of Second Temple Judaism, Christian and Rabbinic origins. It thereby contributes to the interdisciplinary study of formative Islam as part and parcel of the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.
Introduction | Guillaume Dye
Method and Theory in the Study of Early Islam | Stephen J. Shoemaker
Arabia and the Late Antique East | Greg Fisher and Philip Wood
Fallen Angels and the Afterlives of Enochic Traditions in Early Islam | Annette Yoshiko Reed
Cushions, bottles and roast chickens! More advertising about Paradise | Gilles Courtieu
The Seismic Qur'ān: On Collective Memory and Seismic Eschatology in the Qur’ān | Thomas Hoffmann
Dating early Qur’anic manuscripts: reading the Objects, Their Texts and the results of Their Material Analysis | Alba Fedeli
Eschatology, Responsories and Rubrics in Eastern Christian Liturgies and in the Qur’ān: Some Preliminary Remarks | Paul Neuenkirchen
Conversion from Jewish and Christian Milieus to Islam and its Influence on the Formation of the Qur’ān | Karl-Friedrich Pohlmann
The Qur’anic Mary and the Chronology of the Qur’ān | Guillaume Dye
The Historical-Critical Study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Scriptures | Isaac W. Oliver
Christianity in the Arabian Peninsula and Possible Contexts for the Qur’ān | Philip Wood
History, Exegesis, Linguistics: A Preliminary, Multi-Discipline Approach to Ibn Hishām (d. c. 215/830) and al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) on the Origins of Islam and the Qur’ān | Ulrika Mårtensson