Negotiating Justice: A Pre-Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts (Part I)

Journal of Qur'anic Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 25-41

  Neuwirth, Angelika ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 85129167240     PISSN: 14653591     EISSN: 17551730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/jqs.2000.2.1.25     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. 'Qur'an, Crisis and Memory: The Qur'anic Path towards Canonisation as Reflected in the Cosmogonic Accounts' in Angelika Neuwirth/Andreas Pflitsch (eds.), Crisis and Memory in Islamic Societies. Proceedings of the Summer Academy of the Working Group 'Islam and Modernity' at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin held at the Orient Institute in Beirut, Sept. 1998 (Beirut, 2000 [Beiruter Texte und Studien 77]).
2. Cf. Arne Ambros, 'Gestaltung und Funktionen der Biosphaere im Koran', in ZDMG 140 (1990), pp. 290-325.
3. 2 IX, pp. 407-409.
4. See Kenneth Cragg, The Event of the Qur'an: Islam in its Scripture (Oxford, 1971, 1994) pp. 180ff.
5. A macrostructural reading was lately explicitly recommended again by A. Rippin in 'Muhammad in the Qur'an. Reading Scripture in the 21st Century' (unpublished MS., 1998).
6. His main works are: Biblical Theology In Crisis (Philadelphia, 1970)
7. Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments (London, 1992).
8. See Christoph Dohmen/Manfred Oeming, Biblischer Kanon warum und wozu? (Freiburg, 1992), p. 25.
9. The distinction was introduced by Richard Bell, see W. Montgomery Watt, Bell's Introduction to the Qur'an, completely revised and enlarged (Edinburgh, 1970), pp.135-144
10. cf. the summary by Neal Robinson, Discovering the Qur'an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text (London, 1986) pp. 83-85
11. For the religiohistorical background see Arthur Jeffery, The Qur'an as Scripture (New York, 1952).
12. See e.g. Heribert Busse, Die theologischen Beziehungen des Islams zu Judentum und Christentum. Grundlagen des Dialogs Im Koran und die Gegenwaertige Situation (Darmstadt, 1988) pp. 68-70.
13. See Gustave E. von Grunebaum, 'Observations of the Muslim Concept of Evil' in Studio Islamica 31 (1970) pp. 117-134.
14. See Frank Kermode's review of Adam Philips, Darwin's Worms (London, 1999) in London Review of Books 11 November 1999, p. 7.
15. See Sigmund Freud, Das Unbehagen in der Kultur (Vienna, 1930)
16. English translation: Civilization and its Discontents (London, 1961) p. 89.
17. see Moritz Zobel, Das Jahr des Juden in Brauch und Liturgie (Berlin, 1936)
18. see Ismar Elbogen, Der juedische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung (1913)
19. translated by Raymond P. Scheindlin under the title Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History (New York/Jerusalem, 1993) pp. 129-142
20. see e.g. Louis Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews (abridged version of the 1909 edition in five volumes, Philadelphia/Jerusalem, 1992)
21. See Josef van Ess, 'Gottesbild und islamische Mystik, Menschenbild und Gesellschaft' (ch. III of) Hans Kueng/Josef van Ess/Heinrich von Stietencron/Heinz Bechert (eds.), Christentum und Weltreligionen. Hinfuehrung zum Dialog mit Islam, Hinduismus und Buddhismus (Muenchen, 1984), p. 129.
22. See Whitney S. Bodman 'Stalking Iblls: In Search of an Islamic Theodicy', in A. Neuwirth/Birgit Embalo/Sebastian Guenther/Mäher Jarrar (eds.), Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Classical and Modern Arabic Literature: Towards a New Hermeneutical Approach (Beirut, 1999 [Beiruter Texte und Studien 64]) pp. 247-269.
23. Following roughly the example presented by H. R. Jauss, Aesthetische Erfahrung und literarische Hermeneutik (Frankfurt/M., 1991), pp. 437-449
24. See for the implications of that transition A. Neuwirth, 'Vom Rezitationstext ueber die Liturgie zum Kanon: Zur Entstehung und Wiederaufloesung der Surenkomposition im Verlauf der Entwicklung eines islamischen Kultus' in Stefan Wild (ed.), The Qur'an as Text (Leiden, 1996) pp. 69-106.
25. Heribert Busse, Die theologischen Beziehungen, pp. 68-70
26. cf. A. Neuwirth, 'Images and Metaphors in the Introductory Sections of the Maccan Surahs', in Gerald R. Hawting and Abdul Kader A.Shareef (eds.), Approaches to the Qufan (London, 1993) pp. 3-26.
27. See Jauss, Aesthetische Erfahrung, p. 444.
28. Cf. W. Graham, Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture in the History of Religion (Cambridge, 1987) p.6
29. For a detailed analysis see A. Neuwirth, 'Referentiality and Textuality in Surat al-Hijr: Some Observations on the Qur'anic 'Canonical Process' and the Emergence of a Community', in Issa Boullata, Literary Aspects of the Qur'an (London, to appear 2000).
30. Josef Horovitz, Koranische Untersuchungen(Berlin, 1926).
31. See for the unique structure of Sūrat al-Rahmān A. Neuwirth, 'Qur'anic Literary Structure Revisited: Sūrat al-Rahmān between mythic account and decodation of myth', in Stefan Leder (ed.), Story-telling in the Framework of Non-fictional Arabic Literature (Wiesbaden, 1998) pp. 389-420.
32. For earlier instances of the story in the apocryphal literatures of Judaism and Christianity see Heinrich Speyer, Die biblischen Erzaehlungen im Koran (Graefenhainichen, 1937)
33. Peter J. Awn, Satan's Tragedy and Redemption: Iblīs In Sufi psychology (Leiden, 1983).
34. Arthur Arberry, The Koran Interpreted [Oxford, 1964]
35. Rudi Paret, Der Koran: Uebersetzung [Stuttgart, 1983].
36. W. Bodman, 'Stalking Iblīs', p. 253.
37. See for the analogies existing between communal ectenies in monotheistic liturgies and Qur'anic polemic/apologetic sections, A. Neuwirth, 'Referentiality'.
38. See A. Neuwirth, Studien zur Komposition der mekkanlschen Suren (Berlin, 1982) ad locum.
39. For the figures of David and Solomon in the Qur'an cf. Heribert Busse, 'Herrschertypen im Koran', in Ulrich Haarmann/Peter Bachmann (eds.), Die Islamische Welt zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit. Festschrift fuer Hans Robert Roemer zum 65 Geburtstag (Beirut, 1979) pp. 59-64.
40. For this episode cf. Anthony H. Johns, 'Solomon and the Horses: The Theology and Exegesis of a Koranic Story, Sūra 38 (Sād): 30-33' in MIDEO 23 (1997) pp. 259-282.
41. For the figure of Job in the Qur'an cf. Anthony H. Johns, 'Narrative, Intertext and Allusion in the Qur'anic Presentation of Job', in Journal of Qur'anic Studies 1 (1999), pp. 1-25.
42. see e.g. Najmuddīn al-Tūfī al-Hanbalī: cAlam al-jadhal fī 'ilm al-jadal, ed. Wolfhart Heinrichs (Wiesbaden [Bibliotheca Islamica 32] 1987), p. 9.