The Qur'ân's Self-Image
Writing and Authority in Islam's Scripture
(Sprache: Englisch)
Islam is frequently characterized as a "religion of the book," and yet Muslims take an almost entirely oral approach to their scripture. Qur'ân means "recitation" and refers to the actual words Muslims believe were revealed to Muhammad by God. Many recite...
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Islam is frequently characterized as a "religion of the book," and yet Muslims take an almost entirely oral approach to their scripture. Qur'ân means "recitation" and refers to the actual words Muslims believe were revealed to Muhammad by God. Many recite the entire sacred text from memory, and it was some years after the Prophet's death that it was first put in book form. Physical books play no part in Islamic ritual. What does the Qur'ân mean, then, when it so often calls itself kitâb, a term usually taken both by Muslims and by Western scholars to mean "book"? To answer this question, Daniel Madigan reevaluates this key term kitâb in close readings of the Qur'ân's own declarations about itself.More than any other canon of scripture the Qur'ân is self-aware. It observes and discusses the process of its own revelation and reception; it asserts its own authority and claims its place within the history of revelation. Here Madigan presents a compelling semantic analysis of its self-awareness, arguing that the Qur'ân understands itself not so much as a completed book, but as an ongoing process of divine "writing" and "re-writing," as God's authoritative response to actual people and circumstances.
Grasping this dynamic, responsive dimension of the Qur'ân is central to understanding Islamic religion and identity. Madigan's book will be invaluable not only to Islamicists but also to scholars who study revelation across religious boundaries.
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List of Figures ix List of Tables ix Preface xi A Note for the Non-Arabist xiii Table of Transliterations and Abbreviations xv Introduction 3 1. The Qur'an as a Book 13 2. The Qur'an's Rejection of Some Common Conceptions of Kitab 53 3. Semantic Analysis and the Understanding of Kitab 79 4. The Semantic Field Kitab I: Verbal Uses of the Root K-T-B 107 5. The Semantic Field of Kitab II: Titles and Process 125 6. The Semantic Field of Kitab III: Synonyms and Attributes 145 7. The Elusiveness of the Kitab: Plurals, Partitives, and Indefinites 167 8. The Continuing Life of the Kitab in Muslim Tradition 181 Appendix: The People of the Kitab 193 Index of Qur'anic Quotations 229 General Index 235
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Madigan
Daniel Madigan has taught Islamic studies in the United States and Australia. He is currently developing a center for the study of religions at the Jesuits' Gregorian University, Rome.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Madigan
- 254 Seiten, Maße: 16,1 x 24 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691059500
- ISBN-13: 9780691059501
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2001
Sprache:
Englisch
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Madigan presents a welcome overview of modern Qur'an scholarship. Choice This is a well-researched and carefully thought out book on the highly complex issue of the Qur'an's self-referential terms to its own status as Scripture. Particularly illuminating are Daniel Madigan's clear and profound engagements with the semantic content of key Qur'anic words... [T]here is much food for thought here. -- Ama Afsaruddin American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences
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