The coming of the comforter : when, where, and to whom? : studies on the rise of Islam and various other topics in memory of John Wansbrough / edited by Carlos A. Segovia, Basil Lourié.
"John Wansbrough is famous for his pioneering studies on the 'sectarian milieu' out of which Islam emerged. In his view, Islam grew out of different - albeit rather marginal - Jewish and Christian traditions whose intertwinings deserve being studied. In the present volume, which is de...
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Piscataway, NJ :
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2012.
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| Series: | Orientalia Judaica Christiana ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface / Basil Lourié
- John Wansbrough and the problem of Islamic origins in recent scholarship : a farewell to the traditional account / Carlos A. Segovia
- Part One: Formative Islam Within Its Jewish-Christian Milieu
- Des textes Pseudo Clementins à la mystique Juive des premiers siecles et du Sinaï a Ma'rib / Geneviève Gobillot
- On the Qur`ān's Mā`ida Passage and the Wanderings of the Israelites / Gabriel Said Reynolds
- Prayer and the Desert Fathers / John Wortley
- Friday veneration in sixth- and seventh-century Christianity and Christian legends about the conversion of Nağrān / Basil Lourie
- Thematic and structural affinities between 1 Enoch and the Qur'ān : a contribution to the study of the Judaeo-Christian apocalyptic setting of the early Islamic faith / Carlos A. Segovia
- Part Two: Revisiting Some Early Islamic Sources, Facts, And Interpretative Issues
- The needle in the haystack : Islamic origins and the nature of the early sources / Herbert Berg
- All we know is what we have been told : reflections on emigration and land as divine heritage in the Qur'ān / Caterina Bori
- L'analyse rhetorique face à la critique historique de J. Wansbrough et de G. Lüling / Michel Cuypers
- Mohammed's exegetical activity in the Meccan Arabic lectionary / Claude Gilliot
- The search for Ţuwā : exegetical method, past and present / Andrew Rippin
- Who is the 'other' Paraclete? / Jan M. F. Van Reeth.