{"title":"The Qur’an and Scripture","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides a study of the Qur’an’s self-presentation as a revealed and proclaimed text. The concepts of “writing” (kitāb) as well as the various terms used within the Qur’an to refer to revelation and the proclaimer’s delivery of scripture are discussed, and the relevant Qur’anic texts are studied. This leads to a discussion of the somewhat controversial concept of “inlibration,” or the supposed becoming-book of the text. The resulting image of the self-understanding of the Qur’an as text is a complex one, in which the self-conceptions of earlier scriptures are adapted to the pre-Islamic Arabian conceptual area.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"7 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":"123871307","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 Early Meccan Period","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews the “communal development” that occurred over the course of the early Meccan period of the Qur’an’s proclamation. This proceeds from an early “psalmic” piety based largely around the vigil and the Prophet-biographical elements of the early suras to proclamations more focused on “warning” and reflections on writing and signs of creation.","PeriodicalId":118519,"journal":{"name":"The Qur'an and Late Antiquity","volume":"56 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":"124764409","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":"How the Qur’an Has Been Read So Far","authors":"A. Neuwirth","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199928958.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"A sketch of the previous research on the Qur’an is provided in detail. The overview of approaches and results in Western research goes back to the nineteenth century, following the story of Qur’an research first up to the Wissenschaft des Judentums (science of Judaism) school of the early twentieth century. Following this, more recent trends in Qur’an research, including the more source-critical and skeptical methods of recent decades, are described. Finally, a sketch of the diversity of current approaches is given, situating the approach of this volume within its relevant scholarly context.","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":"130367720","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}