Prophecy and Power
Muhammad and the Qur'an in the Light of Comparison
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ISBN-13:
9781845539870
Veröffentl:
2013
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
18.01.2013
Seiten:
208
Autor:
Marilyn Robinson Waldman
Gewicht:
484 g
Format:
240x161x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A posthumous work by the most rigorous comparativist in her generation of Islamic studies scholars, Prophecy and Power proposes a major innovative approach to both the Prophet Muhammad and the Noble Qur'an. By the end of the ninth century the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an intercommunal norm beyond compare, and yet the very constructedness of this model of Muhammad allows historians of religion to see how the process itself requires us to undercut the terms used. We undercut them by qualifying them with multiple meanings, both overlapping and corrective, but we also decapitalize them in order to suggest how much broader they were in earlier contexts, and how much broader they may become, or were intended to become, in later contexts.
By the end of the ninth century the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an incomparable exemplar shared by all Muslim communities. Prophecy and Power offers a rigorous comparative study of both the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an.
Preface Bruce B. Lawrence Prologue: Inviting Prophets and Entertaining Comparisons 1. Opening a Black Box: Rethinking the Comparative Study of 'Prophecy' 2. Comparatively Speaking: Qur'anic Comparison as a Modality of Change 3. Beyond Compare: Muhammad as Exemplar and Foil 4. An Experiment in Comparison: Muhammad and Alinesitoue (edited by Robert M. Baum, University of Missouri) Postscript Lindsay Jones, The Ohio State University