Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān
Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An introduction to the Qur'an (Koran), a text that has guided the lives of millions.
The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad
Author: Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521886074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
A collection of essays by some of the most accomplished scholars in the field exploring the life and legacy of the Prophet.
The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology
Author: Tim Winter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494419
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. Throughout the treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved. Despite its importance, Islamic theology has been neglected in recent scholarship, and this book provides a unique, scholarly but accessible introduction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494419
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This series of critical reflections on the evolution and major themes of pre-modern Muslim theology begins with the revelation of the Koran, and extends to the beginnings of modernity in the eighteenth century. The significance of Islamic theology reflects the immense importance of Islam in the history of monotheism, to which it has brought a unique approach and style, and a range of solutions which are of abiding interest. Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. Throughout the treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved. Despite its importance, Islamic theology has been neglected in recent scholarship, and this book provides a unique, scholarly but accessible introduction.
The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies
Author: Robert A. Orsi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521883911
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
Informative and provocative, this book introduces readers to debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggests future research possibilities.
The Cambridge Companion to Allegory
Author: Rita Copeland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827898
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Allegory is a vast subject, and its knotty history is daunting to students and even advanced scholars venturing outside their own historical specializations. This Companion will present, lucidly, systematically, and expertly, the various threads that comprise the allegorical tradition over its entire chronological range. Beginning with Greek antiquity, the volume shows how the earliest systems of allegory developed in poetry dealing with philosophy, mystical religion, and hermeneutics. Once the earliest histories and themes of the allegorical tradition have been presented, the volume turns to literary, intellectual, and cultural manifestations of allegory through the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The essays in the last section address literary and theoretical approaches to allegory in the modern era, from reactions to allegory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to reevaluations of its power in the thought of the twentieth century and beyond.
How to Read the Qur'an
Author: Carl W. Ernst
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869074
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869074
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
For anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, and understand the text of the Qur'an, How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide. Using a chronological reading of the text according to the conclusions of modern scholarship, Carl W. Ernst offers a nontheological approach that treats the Qur'an as a historical text that unfolded over time, in dialogue with its audience, during the career of the Prophet Muhammad.
The Cambridge Companion to Choral Music
Author: André De Quadros
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521111730
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Bringing together perspectives on history, global activity and professional development, this Companion provides a unique overview of choral music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521111730
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Bringing together perspectives on history, global activity and professional development, this Companion provides a unique overview of choral music.
Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
Author: Asma Sayeed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107355370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.
The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan
Author: Yasmin Saikia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life and contribution in the nineteenth century and his legacy in our current times.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108483879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life and contribution in the nineteenth century and his legacy in our current times.
The Origins of the Koran
Author: Ibn Warraq
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592146X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Scholars of Islam are familiar with the Koran's many errors and contradictions, but these have rarely been revealed to a wider public. THE ORIGINS OF THE KORAN is an attempt to remedy this deficiency by bringing together classic critical essays which raise key issues surrounding Islam's holy book. Indispensable to scholars and all those interested in the textual underpinning of one of the fastest growing religions in the world.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 161592146X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Scholars of Islam are familiar with the Koran's many errors and contradictions, but these have rarely been revealed to a wider public. THE ORIGINS OF THE KORAN is an attempt to remedy this deficiency by bringing together classic critical essays which raise key issues surrounding Islam's holy book. Indispensable to scholars and all those interested in the textual underpinning of one of the fastest growing religions in the world.