Qur’anic Studies Today

Qur'anic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'an.

Introduction; 1 Wansbrough, Bultmann, and the Theory of Variant Traditions in the Qur¿an - Devin J. Stewart; 2 Lot's Wife: Late Antique Paradigms of Sense and the Qur¿an - Nora K. Schmid; 3 The Sign of Jonah: Transformations and Interpretations of the Jonah Story in the Qur¿an - Hannalies Koloska; 4 End of Hope: Suras 10-15, Despair, and a Way out of Mecca - Walid A. Saleh; 5 The Casting: A Close Hearing of Surat TaHa 9-79 - Michael A. Sells; 6 Qur¿anic Studies and Historical-Critical Philology: The Qur¿an's Staging, Penetrating, and finally Eclipsing of Biblical Tradition - Angelika Neuwirth; 7 The Sunna of Our Messengers: The Qur¿an's Paradigm for Messengers and Prophet: A Reading of Surat ash-Shu¿arä- Sidney H. Griffith; 8 Textual and Paratextual meaning in the Recited Qur¿an: An Analysis of a Performance of Surat al-Furqan by Sheikh Mishari Rashid Alafasy - Lauren E. Osborne; 9 The Qur¿an's Theopoetic Manifesto - Ghassan el Masri; 10 The Qur¿an between Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism - Holger M. Zellentin; 11 Reinterpreting the Qur¿anic Criticism of Other Religions - Mun'im Sirry