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 controv
While not rediscovered until the 1930s, Abd Al-Jabbar's and other Mu'tazil scholarship dates back to about 400-1000 AD. Compelled by the Pines/Stern debate over Abd al-Jabbar's assertions about Christ
A groundbreaking comparative study that illuminates the connections between the Qur’an and the Bible While the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament are understood to be related texts, the sacred s
This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur’an must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text
Introduction: Quraanic Studies and Its Controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Quraan in Recent Scholarship: Challenges and Disiderata / Fred M. Donner -- Epigraphy and the Linguistic Background
This book continues the work of The Qur’an in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’an and its origins, looking beyond medi
This book challenges the dominant scholarly notion that the Qur’an must be interpreted through the medieval commentaries shaped by the biography of the prophet Muhammad, arguing instead that the text
This book continues the work of The Qur’an in its Historical Context, in which an international group of scholars address an expanded range of topics on the Qur’an and its origins, looking beyond medi
Promotes gracious interfaith dialogue on sensitive theological issuesTheological issues are crucial to how Christians and Muslims understand and perceive each other. In Sacred Misinterpretation&#
In the Critique of Christian Origins Abd al-Jabbar—the leading Muslim intellectual of the late tenth century—develops what might be considered the first Islamic history of Christianit
