Qur'an and History - A Disputed Relationship Some Reflections on Qur'anic History and History in the Qur'an

Journal of Qur'anic Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-18

  Neuwirth, Angelika ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 85035422112     PISSN: 14653591     EISSN: 17551730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/jqs.2003.5.1.1     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Ibn Warraq has lately contributed meritoriously to Qur'anic Studies by reprinting a number of relevant essays throwing light on textual cruces and presenting proposals of solution worked out by earlier scholars: What the Koran Really Says. Language, Text, & Commentary Edited with Translations (Amherst/New York, 2002).
2. Aziz al-Azmeh, 'Chronophagous Discourse. A Study of the Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in Islamic Tradition' in Frank E. Reynolds and David Tracy (eds), Religion and Practical Reason in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions (Albany, 1994), pp. 193ff.
3. see Ignaz Goldziher, Die Richtungen der Islamischen Koranauslegung, reprint of the 1920 edn (Leiden, 1970)
4. See also Arthur Jeffery, Materials for the History of the Text of the Qur'an. The Old Codices (Cairo, 1936).
5. Aziz Al-Azmeh, 'The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism', unpublished paper presented at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, March 1997, p. 7.
6. See Gotthelf Bergsträsser, 'Plan eines Apparatus criticus zum Koran' in Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1930 (7).
7. Eric Hobsbawm, On History (London, 1997), p. 137.
8. Al-Azmeh, The Muslim Canon from Late Antiquity to the Era of Modernism', p. 2.
9. Alexander Stille, 'A Language Mystery. "White raisins" instead of "virgins"?' in International Herald Tribune 3/4/2002.
10. See the review of John Wansbrough, Quranic Studies, by Josef van Ess, Bibllotheca Orientalts 35 (1978), pp. 350-3.
11. Ibn Rawandi, 'On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts in the Koran. A Critical Look at the Work of Günter Lüling' in Ibn Warraq (ed.), What the Koran really says, pp. 653-710; p. 691.
12. Andrew Rippin, 'Muhammad in the Qur'an. Reading Scripture in the 21st Century' in Harald Motzki (ed.), The Biography of Muhammad. The Issue of the Sources (Leiden, 2000), pp. 298-310; p. 308.
13. John Wansbrough, The Sectarian Milieu (Oxford, 1977), p. 124
14. adduced by Ibn Rawandi, 'On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts', p. 693.
15. John Wansbrough, Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 179
16. adduced by Ibn Rawandi, 'On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts', p. 691.
17. Gerhard Endress, 'Die Arabische Schrift' in Wolf-Dietrich Fischer (ed.), Grundrlss der arabischen Philologie I. Sprachwissenschaften (Wiesbaden, 1982), pp. 165-97.
18. Goldziher, Richtungen.
19. GdQ I/II: Theodor Nöldeke & Friedrich Schwally, Geschichte des Qorans I: Über den Ursprung des Qorans, II: Die Sammlung des Qorans (Leipzig, 1919).
20. GdQ III: Gotthelf Bergsträsser & Otto Pretzl, Die Geschichte des Korantextes (Leipzig, 1938).
21. Arthur Jeffery, The Foreign Vocabulary ofthe Qur'an (Baroda, 1938).
22. Karl Völlers, Volkssprache und Schriftsprache im alten Arabien (Strasburg, 1906).
23. Alphonse Mingana, 'Syriac Influences on the Style of the Kur'an', Bulletin of John Rylands Library, Manchester 1927, pp. 77-98
24. Reprinted in Ibn Warraq, What the Koran really says, pp. 171-92.
25. Lüling initiated his project with Über den Ur-Quran (Erlangen, 1972)
26. English: On the Pre-Islamic Poetic Christian Texts in the Koran
27. See for his methodology Gerald Hawting's review of his Die Wiederentdeckung des Propheten Muhammad in Journal of Semitic Studies 27 (1982), pp. 100-9
28. Ibn Rawandi, 'On Pre-Islamic Christian Strophic Poetical Texts'.
29. Gerald Hawting, review of Lüling in Journal of Semitic Studies 27 (1982), p. 111.
30. It was presented on the internet by Ibn Warraq, 'Virgins? What virgins?' in Guardian. Archive 12/1/2002
31. Alexander Stille, 'A Language Mystery. "White raisins" instead of "virgins"?' in International Herald Tribune 3/4/2002. An interview by Christoph Burgmer with Christoph Luxenberg from 2/9/2002 appeared in: http://www.dradio.de/cgi-bin/es/neu-litpol/5999.html
32. The panegyric appraisal published by Karl-Heinz Ohlig, director of the Arbeitsstelle für Religionswissenschaft at the Universität des Saarlands, a close cooperator of Luxenberg's, in http://perlentaucher.de/autoren/10021.html, cannot be taken as a critical evaluation
33. Rainer Nabielek, 'Weintrauben statt Jungfrauen: Zu einer neuen Lesart des Korans' in INAMO 23/24 (2000), pp. 66-75.
34. 'Cristoph Luxenberg', Die syro-aramäische Lesart des Koran: Ein Beitrag zur Entschlüsselung der Koransprache (Berlin: Das Arabische Buch, 2000), p. 299.
35. Luxenberg, Die syro-aramäische Lesart, pp. 95-100.
36. Angelika Neuwirth, 'Form and Structure of the Qur'an' in Jane Dāmmen McAuliffe (ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (Leiden, 2002), Vol. 2, pp. 245-66.
37. See Angelika Neuwirth, 'Referentiality and Textuality in Sūrat al-Hijr. Some Observations on the Qur'anic "Canonical Process" and the Emergence of a Community' in Issa J. Boullata (ed.), Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur'an (Richmond, 2000), pp. 143-72
38. 'Negotiating Justice. A Pre-Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts', Journal ofQur'anic Studies 2:1 (2000), pp. 25-41; 2:2 (2000), pp. 1-18.
39. Aleida Assmann & Jan Assmann, 'Kanon und Zensur als Kultursoziologische Kategorien' in A. Assmann & J. Assmann (eds), Kanon und Zensur. Archāologie der literarischen Kommunikation II (Munich, 1987), pp. 2-27.
40. Josef Horovitz, Koranische Untersuchungen (Berlin, 1926).
41. Fred Donner, Narratives of Origin, p. 84.
42. Angelika Neuwirth, 'Form and Structure of the Qur'an'.
43. Tarif Khalidi, Arab Historical Thought, p. 8.
44. Heribert Busse, 'Herrschertypen im Koran' in Ulrich Haarmann & Peter Bachmann (eds), Die Islamische Welt zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzelt. Festschrift für Hans Robert Römer zum 65. Geburtstag (Beirut/Wiesbaden, 1979), pp. 56-80.
45. Robert Alter, The Art ofBiblical Narrative (New York, 1981), p. 184.
46. Kenneth Cragg, The Event ofthe Qur'an, pp. 171f.