Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of by Asad Q Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, Professor of Islamic History

Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of by Asad Q Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, Professor of Islamic History

By Asad Q Ahmed, Behnam Sadeghi, Professor of Islamic History Robert G Hoyland, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Adam Silverstein

This quantity brings jointly articles on numerous features of the highbrow and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written via top students who span 3 generations and who hide such diversified fields as overdue old stories, Islamic reports, Classics, and Jewish experiences, the amount is a testomony to the breadth and to the sustained, deep effect of the corpus of the honoree, Professor Patricia Crone. individuals are: David Abulafia, Asad Q. Ahmed, Karen Bauer, Michael Cooperson, Hannah Cotton, David M. Eisenberg, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Matthew S. Gordon, Gerald Hawting, Judith Herrin, Robert Hoyland, Bella Tendler Krieger, Margaret Larkin, Maria Mavroudi, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, David Powers, Chase Robinson, Behnam Sadeghi, Adam Silverstein, Devin Stewart, man Stroumsa, D. G. Tor, Kevin van Bladel, David J. Wasserstein, Chris Wickam, Joseph Witztum, F. W. Zimmermann

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14 For the role that duplicated narratives played in the development of Old Testament criticism, see Nahkola, Double Narratives in the Old Testament. 15 See Cook, The Koran, 141–2. Cook treats the issue of parallel passages briefly. 16 Another question that requires an explanation is why the variants are preserved in the Quran. 2 Harmonistic Readings The mirror image of Wansbrough’s model is found in the traditional Islamic approach, which tends to read such parallel accounts harmonistically.

Whereas one scholar compares Muhammad to a composer who revisits a theme several times with variations,10 another scholar sees in the parallel accounts an indication that some Quranic passages are the work of scholars of Jewish and Christian origin, writing after the death of the Prophet. , 190–3. 8 An extremely apologetic tone is found in Kadhim, review of Fables of the Ancients? Here Alan Dundes is reproached for daring to treat the issue of parallel accounts and contradictions in the Quran as worthy of discussion.

94). 155 it is related to the actions of Satan. The language of slipping is used in Syriac sources with regard to Adam and Eve and Satan (Witztum, “The Syriac Milieu of the Quran,” 110, note 41). ” (22) So he led them on by delusion ( fa-dallāhumā bi-ghurūrin);56 and when they tasted the tree, their shameful parts became apparent to them, so they took to stitching upon themselves leaves of the Garden. ” Q 20 (115) And We made a covenant with Adam before, but he forgot, and We found in him no constancy.

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