{"title":"The Qur’an and Poetry","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses the relationship of the Qur’an to poetry, both in terms of poetry as a broader interpretive category and, in specific, in relation to pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, in which poetry is associated with prophecy. Specific Qur’anic statements in relation to poetry are discussed, but the broader relevance of the function of poetry in the pre-Islamic Arabian context is also brought to bear on the historical interpretation of the function of the Qur’an in the lives of its first recipients. The Qur’anic text actively counters negative associations with poets and seers in pre-Islamic Arabic culture, distancing the proclaimer from charges of ecstatic possession.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122051410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Qur’an and History","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the notions of “history” as they are presented and developed in the Qur’an. It critically reviews the notion that the Qur’an is ahistorical—that the Prophet stories and other narrative elements in the text do not show an understanding of or interest in history as such. Rather, it is argued, the text reveals a relationship to history that is quite varied, presenting vital and interesting reinterpretations of earlier narratives, both pagan and biblical, and a constant “conversation” with the notion of history at work in earlier traditions. This conversation reflects the formation of the community and the process of its development.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126552883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sura Structures and Chronology","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter lays out the criteria for the chronological arrangement of the suras that will be followed in the rest of the book. It argues critically for upholding the basic chronology first set out by Nöldeke at the end of the nineteenth century, providing detail on the textual and rhetorical qualities used to define the chronological development of the text. It also provides an overview of the structural qualities of the sura as a genre, and of the verbal features characteristics of the successive stages of the text’s development.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127778390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Redaction and History of the Text","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter a detailed history of the redaction and earliest recording of the Qur’an text is given. This history allows the prominent theses about the historical emergence of the text to be examined, and provides a basis on which to interpret the “canonical” Uthmanic text of the Qur’an. Following this, the post-redactional history of the text is reviewed, offering a historical explanation of the processes that have led to the proliferation of the current standardized version. As one of the primary functions of the Qur’anic text is liturgical, standards of recitation have played a central role in the development of the form of the text.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117181643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stages of Communal Formation in the Middle and Late Meccan Periods","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on the process of communal formation in the middle and late Meccan time and the way the Qur’an reflects this process. This involves the construction of a “text world” whereby the stories of “God’s people” are told in relation to their predecessors among the earlier religious communities of the Jews and the Christians, as well as the emergence of anti-pagan polemic as a major theme in the proclamation. It also involves the alteration of existing mythic narrative paradigms and the emergence of new homiletic instruments, namely, the usage of parables and the distinctive Qur’anic simile or “likeness,” the mathal.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125075414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rhetorical Qur’an","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the notion that the Qur’an is a document of an “age of rhetoric,” showing the ways in which the Qur’an uses rhetorical means to present a convincing and novel statement in relation to previous texts and credos. This includes a view to the early reception of the Qur’an in terms of the concept of its “incapacitating” rhetoric, which was highlighted in the early reception history, and also shows the ways in which the rhetorical structures of earlier creeds are incorporated and “overcome” in particular ways in the Qur’an. This shows how the Qur’an and the community around it developed within a Late Antique milieu.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128872340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biblical-Qur’anic Figures","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, a detailed depiction is offered of the development of specific biblical figures and narratives in the Qur’an. Each figure reflects the Qur’anic reframing of the role of prophecy in general and the biblical figuration of prophecy and Prophets in specific. The depictions of these figures are set against the background of their evidence in the preceding Late Antique religious and literary traditions, including Alexander legends, Christian homilies, and the Jewish accounts of Josephus.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123028982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qur’an and Bible","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter the general issues of interpretation involving the differences and similarities between the Qur’an and the Old and New Testaments are critically discussed. Allegory and typology are discussed as overall hermeneutic categories and as ways of describing and approaching the Bible and the Qur’an. Reflections are offered here on the nature of the “Prophetic discourse” represented in the Qur’an, and questions of genre and contemporary approaches to scriptural reading are put forward. The appellatory nature of Prophetic speech in the Qur’an offers some of the clearest points of comparison and contrast with biblical texts, along with narrative passages and their relation to history.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117227222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Liturgical Qur’an","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter lays out a detailed discussion of the liturgical usage of the Qur’an texts that is evident in the texts and the changes in ritual and liturgical function evident through a reading of the Qur’an texts. A picture emerges of the gradually increasing adoption of the sura as a liturgical form through the early, middle, and late Meccan phases, followed by its expansion into the “long form” sura in the Medinan phase. This development is related also to discernible changes in the early cult practices, in which the suras came to serve more as sermons than as psalmic prayers.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115534404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stages of Communal Formation in Medina","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter presents the final stage of “communal formation” reflected in the Qur’an, which occurred during the Medinan period. During this period, through processes involving the insertion of texts within existing proclamations from the Meccan period, concepts such as the “discovery of God’s wrath” and the “discovery of ambiguity in the divine scripture” come to the fore. Furthermore, Mecca again becomes the focus of communal ritual, after that focus had strayed toward Jerusalem. Finally, in this chapter the Qur’anic conception of martyrdom is discussed in relation to its monotheistic precedents.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115793388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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