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Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'ān as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life. While retaining the literary approach to the subject, this new edition extends both the theological and philosophical approaches to the Qur'ān.

Edited by the noted authority on the Qur'ān, Andrew Rippin, and Islamic Studies scholar Jawid Mojaddedi, and with contributions from other internationally renowned scholars, the book is comprehensive in scope and written in clear and accessible language. New to this edition is material on modern exegesis, the study of the Qur'ān in the West, the relationship between the Qur'ān and religions prior to Islam, and much more.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān is a rich and wide-ranging resource, exploring the Qur'ān as both a religious text and as a work of literature.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors viii

Preface xi Andrew Rippin

Introduction 1 Jawid Mojaddedi

Part I Orientation 5

1 Introducing 7 Tamara Sonn

2 Discovering 23 Christopher Buck

3 Contextualizing 43 Abdullah Saeed

Part II Text 59

4 Linguistic Structure 61 Salwa El‐Awa

5 Patterns of Address 82 Rosalind Ward Gwynne

6 Language 97 Mustansir Mir

7 Poetry and Language 117 Navid Kermani

8 Foreign Vocabulary 130 Michael Carter

9 Structure and the Emergence of Community 151 Angelika Neuwirth

10 Sacrality and Collection 171 Aliza Shnizer

11 Written Transmission 184 François Déroche

12 Context: Muḥammad 200 Herbert Berg

13 Context: ʿUmar b. al‐Khaṭṭāb 218 Avraham Hakim

Part III Content 235

14 God 237 Andrew Rippin

15 Prophets and Prophethood 248 Uri Rubin

16 Moses 262 Brannon Wheeler

17 Abraham 280 Carol Bakhos

18 Jesus 288 Gordon Nickel

19 Biblical Background 303 Gabriel Said Reynolds

20 Other Religions 320 Mun’im Sirry

21 Argumentation 333 Kate Zebiri

22 Knowing and Thinking 349 A. H. Mathias Zahniser

23 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family 365 Khaleel Mohammed

24 Jihād 376 Reuven Firestone

Part IV Interpretation 389

25 Hermeneutics: al‐Thaʿlabı 391 Walid Saleh

26 Stories of the Prophets 406 Marianna Klar

27 Ṣūfism 418 Alan Godlas

28 Rūmı 430 Jawid Mojaddedi

29 Ibn al‐ʿArabı 442 Binyamin Abrahamov

30 Twelver Shıʿı Taʾwıl 449 Diana Steigerwald

31 Ismāʿılı Taʾwıl 463 Diana Steigerwald

32 Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān 479 Johanna Pink

Part V Application 493

33 Exegetical Sciences 495 Jane Dammen McAuliffe

34 Theology 512 Binyamin Abrahamov

35 Jurisprudence 526 A. Kevin Reinhart

36 Contemporary Ethical Issues 543 Leah Kinberg

37 Narrative Literature 562 Roberto Tottoli

38 Recitation 577 Anna M. Gade

Bibliography 591

Index of People, Places and Topics 632

Index of Qurʾān Verses 651