Koran category: 469 books
Heavenly Journeys, Earthly Concerns
The Legacy of the Mi'raj in the Formation of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
This book examines how an elite group of traditionists, historians and theologians shaped Muslims' perceptions of their prophet, their community and their behavior by retelling and interpreting the story of Muhammad's ascent to heaven (the mi'raj).
LE CORAN - القرآن
Avec une Biographie complète de Mahomet
Language: French
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Edition Complète de " LE CORAN - Avec une Biographie complète de Mahomet - Mohammad Scribes ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.
Le Coran reprend les...
The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism
From Taha to Nasr
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication....
Shari'a Scripts
A Historical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A case study in the textual architecture of the venerable legal and ethical tradition at the center of the Islamic experience, Sharīʿa Script**s is a work of historical anthropology focused on Yemen in the early twentieth century. There—while colonial regimes, late Ottoman reformers, and early...
by Esad Durakovic
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Through analysing ancient and classical Arabic literature, including the Qur'an, from within the Arabic literary tradition, this book provides an original interpretation of poetics, and of other important aspects of Arab culture.
Ancient Arabic literature is a realm of poetry; prose literary...
by Sajah
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The letters EL were used as a euphemism for God. Alif-Lam appears 5 times followed by raa, and 7 times followed by mim. These muqatta'at would mean "God's spirit" and possibly "God's kingdom" in Hebrew. Other abbreviations include Ha - possibly Hashem andTa - possibly Torah.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Qur'ānic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'ān.
Combining theoretical and methodological clarity with close readings of qur’ānic texts, these contributions provide...
Qur'anic Hermeneutics
Between Science, History, and the Bible
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Qur'anic Hermeneutics argues for the importance of understanding the polysemous nature of the words in the Qur'an and outlines a new method of Qur'anic exegesis called intertextual polysemy. By interweaving science, history...
Symbol of Divine Light
The Lamp in Islamic Culture and Other Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Symbol of Divine Light surveys the history of the mosque lamp, describing the numerous variants made in different historical periods and containing more than 200 stunning color and b/w illustrations. The deep significance of light and the lamp in Islamic culture and other traditions—Jewish, Christian,...
by Mohammad Amin Sheikho
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Contents- Interprétation et mémorisation de la sourate an-Nâs (Les hommes)- Interprétation et mémorisation de la noble sourate al-Falaq (l’aube naissante)- Interprétation et mémorisation de la sourate al-Ikhlâs (le monothéisme pur)- Le garçon courageux et la fée (Histoire vraie)- Interprétation...
by Claude-Étienne Savary
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Préface. Abrégé de la Vie de Mahomet. Traduction du Coran.
by Claude-Étienne Savary
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Mahomet, honoré parmi les mahométans du titre glorieux d’apôtre et de prophète, naquit à la Mecque au commencement de la guerre de l’Éléphant.
Il eut pour père Abd-Allah, fils d’Abd el Motalleb, et pour mère Amœnas,...
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics
A Syntactic, Semantic and Stylistic Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces. It provides a comprehensive...
The Qur’an and Its Biblical Reflexes
Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
This path-breaking book sets aside the traditional story of the life of Muhammad, and inquires into the internal history of the Qur'an itself. Drawing on fresh insights from linguistics and theology, Durie puts forward a new and very different explanation for the “Mecca-Medina” division, attributing...