The silent Qurʼan and the speaking Qurʼan : scriptural sources of islam between history and fervor /

The silent Qurʼan and the speaking Qurʼan : scriptural sources of islam between history and fervor /

This is the first book to evaluate the writing of Islam's major scriptural sources within the context of the bloody conflicts that surrounded the succession of the Prophet. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi rebuilds a Shi'ite understanding of Islam's early history and the genesis of its holy s...

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Main Author: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali (Author)
Other Authors: Kohlberg, Etan (Contributor), Anṣārī, Ḥasan, 1970 or 1971- (Contributor), Ormsby, Eric L. 1941- (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Sulaym ibn Qays, > -approximately 705.
Sayyārī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, > active 9th century.
Ḥibarī, al-Ḥusayn ibn al-Ḥakam, > -899 or 900.
Abū Jaʻfar al-Qummī, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan, > -902 or 903.
Kulaynī, Muḥammad ibn Yaʻqūb, > -941?
Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History.
Qurʼan > Commentaries > History and criticism.
Coran > Commentaires > Histoire et critique.
Qurʼan
Hadith (Shiites) > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • A Word to the Reader
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Violence and Scripture in the Book of Sulaym ibn Qays
  • 2. Qur'anic Recensions and Political Tendencies: Al-Sayyārī and His Book of Revelation and Falsification
  • 3. The Necessity of Hermeneutics: On the Qur'anic Commentary of al-Ḥibarī
  • 4. The Emergence of Gnosis: A Monograph on Knowledge Compiled by al-Ṣaffār al-Qummī
  • 5. Perfecting a Religion: Remarks on al-Kulaynī and His Summa of Traditions
  • Epilogue
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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