Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.