Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'ān as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life. While retaining the literary approach to the subject, this new edition extends both the theological and philosophical approaches to the Qur'ān.
Edited by the noted authority on the Qur'ān, Andrew Rippin, and Islamic Studies scholar Jawid Mojaddedi, and with contributions from other internationally renowned scholars, the book is comprehensive in scope and written in clear and accessible language. New to this edition is material on modern exegesis, the study of the Qur'ān in the West, the relationship between the Qur'ān and religions prior to Islam, and much more.
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'ān is a rich and wide-ranging resource, exploring the Qur'ān as both a religious text and as a work of literature.
List of Contributors viii Preface xi Andrew Rippin Introduction 1 Jawid Mojaddedi Part I Orientation 5 1 Introducing 7 Tamara Sonn 2 Discovering 23 Christopher Buck 3 Contextualizing 43 Abdullah Saeed Part II Text 59 4 Linguistic Structure 61 Salwa El‐Awa 5 Patterns of Address 82 Rosalind Ward Gwynne 6 Language 97 Mustansir Mir 7 Poetry and Language 117 Navid Kermani 8 Foreign Vocabulary 130 Michael Carter 9 Structure and the Emergence of Community 151 Angelika Neuwirth 10 Sacrality and Collection 171 Aliza Shnizer 11 Written Transmission 184 François Déroche 12 Context: Muḥammad 200 Herbert Berg 13 Context: ʿUmar b. al‐Khaṭṭāb 218 Avraham Hakim Part III Content 235 14 God 237 Andrew Rippin 15 Prophets and Prophethood 248 Uri Rubin 16 Moses 262 Brannon Wheeler 17 Abraham 280 Carol Bakhos 18 Jesus 288 Gordon Nickel 19 Biblical Background 303 Gabriel Said Reynolds 20 Other Religions 320 Mun’im Sirry 21 Argumentation 333 Kate Zebiri 22 Knowing and Thinking 349 A. H. Mathias Zahniser 23 Sex, Sexuality, and the Family 365 Khaleel Mohammed 24 Jihād 376 Reuven Firestone Part IV Interpretation 389 25 Hermeneutics: al‐Thaʿlabı 391 Walid Saleh 26 Stories of the Prophets 406 Marianna Klar 27 Ṣūfism 418 Alan Godlas 28 Rūmı 430 Jawid Mojaddedi 29 Ibn al‐ʿArabı 442 Binyamin Abrahamov 30 Twelver Shıʿı Taʾwıl 449 Diana Steigerwald 31 Ismāʿılı Taʾwıl 463 Diana Steigerwald 32 Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān 479 Johanna Pink Part V Application 493 33 Exegetical Sciences 495 Jane Dammen McAuliffe 34 Theology 512 Binyamin Abrahamov 35 Jurisprudence 526 A. Kevin Reinhart 36 Contemporary Ethical Issues 543 Leah Kinberg 37 Narrative Literature 562 Roberto Tottoli 38 Recitation 577 Anna M. Gade Bibliography 591 Index of People, Places and Topics 632 Index of Qurʾān Verses 651
Andrew Rippin (d. 2016) was the Emeritus Professor of Islamic History at the University of Victoria, Canada. He was one of the world's leading scholars on the Qur'ān. Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA. He is a leading scholar of Ṣūfism with a focus on Rūmī.
