| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Texts and studies on the Qur'an ; v. 8 |
|
Texts and studies on the Qurʼān ; v. 8
|
| Contents |
Preface to This Edition; The Origin of the Koran; The Notion of Prophecy; The Type of Muḥammad's Prophetic Endowments; Jewish and Christian Influences; Literacy in Pre-Islamic Arabia; Muḥammad's Relation to Zayd b. Amr and Umayya b. Abī l-Ṣalt; Pagan Influence and Muḥammad's Personal Contribution to the Establishment of His Religion; Muḥammad's Revelations; The Various Types of Muḥammad's Revelations; Psychological Stages of Excitement. The Alleged Mentor of the Prophet. Daḥya; The Length of the Revelations, Their Names, Style, Refrain and Wordplay. The Construction of the Verses |
|
Written Notes of Koranic Passages. Additions and Changes Arising from MuḥammadThe Seven aḥruf (Sets of Readings.) Abrogation of Revelations; The Originality of the Koran and Its Connection with the Revelations of the Prophet Maslama; The Origin of Individual Parts of the Koran; Aids in Establishing the Chronology of the Sūras; The Transmitted Lists of the Chronology of the Koran; The Individual Parts of the Current Koran: The Meccan Sūras; General Chronology of the Meccan Sūras; Content and Characteristics of the Meccan Sūras |
|
Classification According to William Muir, Hubert Grimme, and Hartwig HirschfeldThe Sūras of the First Meccan Period; General Comments; Formulas of Invocation at the Opening of Many Sūras; Comments on Sūras 96, 74, 111, 106, 108, 104, 107, 102, 105, 92, 90; Comments on Sūras 94, 93, 97, 86, 91, 80, 68, 87, 95, 103, 85, 73, 101, 99, 82, 81, 53, 84, 100, 79, 77, 78, 88, 89, 75, 83, 69, 51, 52, 56, 70, 55, 112, 109, 113, 114; The Sūras of the Second Meccan Period; General Comments; The Divine Name Raḥmān; Comments on Sūras 54, 37, 71, 76, 44, 50, 20, 26, 15, 19, 38 |
|
Comments on Sūras 38, 36, 43, 72, 67, 23, 21, 25, 17, 27, 18The Sūras of the Third Meccan Period; General Comments; Comments on Sūras: 32, 41, 45, 16, 30, 11, 14, 12, 40, 28, 39; Comments on Sūras 29, 31, 42, 10, 34, 35, 7, 46, 6, 13; The Medinan Sūras; General Comments; Political and Religious Conditions at Yathrib before the Hijra; The Unprecedented Success of Islamic Propaganda at Yathrib; The "Waverers" (munāfiqūn); The Pagan Population and the Jewish Tribes; Content and Style of the Medinan Sūras; Comments on Sūras 2, 98, 64, 62, 8, 47, 3, 61, 57, 4, 65, 59 |
|
Comments on Sūras 33, 63, 24, 58, 22, 48, 66, 60, 110, 49, 9, 5Muḥammad's Uncanonical Promulgations; Non-Extant Revelations; The Uncanonical Sayings of the Prophet; Miscellaneous Revelations Preserved in the Traditions; Written Collections in Muḥammad's Lifetime; The Preservation of the Manuscripts of the Revelation during Muḥammad's Lifetime, Based on References in the Koran and on the Literary Form of the Sūras; The Indirect Collectors of the Koran or the Custodians of the Oral Revelation; Popular Acquaintance with the Koran under the First Caliphs; Collecting and Editing |
| Summary |
This first complete translation of Theodor Nöldeke's The History of the Qur??n offers a foundational work of modern Qur'anic studies to the English-speaking public. Nöldeke's original publication, as revised and expanded over nearly three quarters of a century by his scholarly successors, Friedrich Schwally, Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl, remains an indispensable resource for any scholarly work on the text of the Qur??n |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the German |
|
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Qurʼan
|
|
Qurʼan fast |
| Subject |
RELIGION -- Islam -- Koran & Sacred Writings.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
|
Sacred books
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Schwally, Friedrich, 1863-1919
|
|
Bergsträsser, Gotthelf, 1886-1933
|
|
Pretzl, O. (Otto)
|
|
Behn, Wolfgang
|
| LC no. |
2012041328 |
| ISBN |
9789004228795 |
|
9004228799 |
|
