
Introduction to the Qur'an
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Historical Context
- 1. The International situation
- 2. Life Arabia
- 3. Mu?ammad's career
- Annex A. Chronology of Mu?ammad's career
- Annex B. ?anif
- CHAPTER TWO. Mu?ammad's Prophetic Experience
- 1. Criticisms of the claim to prophethood
- 2. Qur'anic descriptions of revelation and prophethood
- 3. The conception of the prophetic function
- 4. The writing down of the Qur'an
- CHAPTER THREE. The History of the Text
- 1. The 'collection' of the Qur'an
- 2. The pre-'Uthmanic codices
- 3. The writing of the Qur'an and early textual studies
- 4. The authenticity and completeness of the Qur'an
- CHAPTER FOUR. The External Form of the Qur'an
- 1. Its name and liturgical divisions
- 2. The suras and verses
- 3. The mysterious letters
- 4. The dramatic form
- CHAPTER FIVE. Features o f Qur'anic Style
- 1. Rhymes and strophes
- 2. Various didactic forms
- 3. The language of the Qur'an
- CHAPTER SIX. The Shaping of the Qur'an
- 1. The theory of abrogation and the possibility of revision
- 2. Evidences of revision and alteration
- 3. Bell's hypothesis of written documents
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Chronology of the Qur'an
- 1. Traditional Islamic views of dating
- 2. European theories of dating
- 3. The sequence of ideas as a guide to chronology
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Names of the Revealed Message
- 1. Signs
- 2. Stories of punishment
- al-mathani
- 3. The Qur'an
- 4. The Book
- 5. Other names
- CHAPTER NINE. The Doctrines of the Qur'an
- 1. The doctrine of God
- 2. Other spiritual beings
- 3. Prophethood
- other religions
- 4. The doctrine of the Last Judgement
- 5. Regulations for the life of the community
- CHAPTER TEN. Muslim Scholarship and the Qur'aN
- 1. Interpretation and exegesis
- 2. The theologians
- CHAPTE ELEVEN. The Qur'an and Occidental Scholarship
- 1. Translations and studies
- 2. Problems facing the non-Muslim scholar
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Table for converting verse-numbers
- Table of suras with chronology, etc.
- Index to the Qur'an
- Index to the Introduction
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