TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reynolds, Gabriel Said 
TI  - The Qurʼān in its historical context
SN  - 041549169
AV  - BP130.45 .R49 2009
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London ; 
PB  - Routledge, 
KW  - Qurʼan
KW  - Commentaries
KW  - History and criticism.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Koran.
N1  -  	Introduction : Qurʼānic studies and its controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds --
The Quʼrān in recent scholarship : challenges and desiderata / Fred M. Donner --
Epigraphy and the linguistic background to the Quʼrān / Robert Hoyland --
Recent research on the construction of the Qurʼān / Gerhard Böwering --
Reconsidering the authorship of the Quʼrān : is the Quʼrān partly the fruit of a progressive and collective work? / Claude Gilliot --
Christian lore and the Arabic Quʼrān : the "companions of the cave" in Sūrat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian tradition / Sidney Griffith --
The theological Christian influence on the Quʼrān : a reflection / Samir Khalil Samir --
Mary in the Quʼrān : a reexamination of her presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad --
The Alexander legend in the Quʼrān 18:83-102 / Kevin van Bladel --
Beyond single words : māʼida, shayṭān, jibt and ṭāghūt : mechanisms of transmission into the Ethiopic (Geʻez) Bible and the Quʼrānic text / Manfred Kropp --
Nascent Islam in the seventh century Syriac sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi --
Notes on medieval and modern emendations of the Quʼrān / Devin J. Stewart --
Syriac in the Quʼrān : classical Muslim theories / Andrew Rippin
N2  - Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur'anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. Among other things, it analyzes the
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