... scholars of religious sciences Maghen Ze’ev Qur’an Islam ‘Urawi Muhammad Iqbal pearls speech Bouhdiba Abdelwahhab divorce husbands Bellamy James A celibacy glances ‘Issa Ibrahim al Jins wa ‘ulama al Islam Paradise sunnah eyes houris Kugle Scott A ‘Sexuality Diversity and Ethics...

... Blood with Impunity (mahdūr al-dam) and Strategies to Confront the Insults and Mockery of Religious Beliefs. Kadivar argued that calling for the execution of an apostate or a blasphemer and shedding their blood lack any reliable Qur’anic justification. Rather, the Qur’an’s very tenor...

... of Religion, Is the Ruling on Executing Apostates Part of the Essentials of Religion? Examining the Claim of Consensus on Killing Blasphemers. The ruling on killing apostates and blasphemers lacks a reliable proof from the Qur’an; and there is no presence of a mutawātir narration, either...

...This chapter is the tenth section of Kadivar’s ‘Treatise on Refuting the Punishment for Blasphemy and Apostasy’. According to the Qur’an, people are free to choose their religion. Islam gives other religions an official status after inviting their adherents to choose it, in the sense that some...

...This chapter discusses how the image of terrestrial return reflects celestial return. Linking this connection to the notions of exile and diaspora, it analyses various texts from the Western culture and texts from the Islamic culture, including the Qur’an, poetry and prose, in order to show how...

...Pursuing the references to ‘Arabs’ in the Islamic-era poetry examined in Chapter 2, this chapter explores the processes by which Arab identity developed as a new form of community in early Islam. Analysis begins with the Qur’an, the first extant text to use the word ʿarabī...

... Böwering Gerhard Islamic Studies Keeler Annabel longue durée history Nasafī ʿAzīz i anthropology Calder Norman dhawq taste Religious Studies Qur’an commentaries Sufism visio beatifica At the outset of this study, we formulated two complementary objectives. On the one hand, we expressed the wish...

...This chapter initially focuses on two manuscripts – a small Qur’an and a monumental Masnavi of Jalal al-Din Rumi. Both were produced in 1278, soon after Rum was formally incorporated into the Ilkhanid empire. After discussing their visual properties in depth, the author uses...

...The Friday sermon in the mosque (which is not explicitly referred to in the Qur’an) has a structure that has been practiced at least since the beginning of the 8^th century. Several scholars have pointed out that its structure with a two-part sermon as the basic element can be derived...

... al Malik ʿAbd al Razzāq al Ṣanʿānī Amīn al al Maʾmūn shuʿūbīyah isnāds Mālik ibn Anas Schacht Joseph Shāfiʿī al Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal jizyah kharāj Aʿmash Sulaymān ibn Mihrān al Shuʿbah ibn al Ḥajjāj Qurʾān (Qur’an Koran) hadith al-Zuhrī al-Ḥajjāj ibn Yūsuf ʿAbd al-Malik mawālī...

... (Qur’an Koran) hadith adhān In most hadith collections, there are narratives concerned with the so-called beginning of the adhān, badʾ al-adhān or badʾ al-nidāʾ. They recount the introduction of the Islamic call to prayer and explain how Muslims...

... of the Shāfiʿi and Ḥanbali schools tended to apply methods closest to the traditionists’, whereas jurisprudents of the Ḥanafi and Māliki schools were always more willing to test hadith by external criteria such as agreement with the Qur’ān and established practice. Ibn al Jawzī Ibn Qayyim al Jawzīyah matn...

... Mehmet Emin Traditionalists Traditionalism Yüksel Edip Qurʾān (Qur’an Koran) hadith Turkey Islamic modernism Islamic law The question of how Western hadith studies have been perceived in Turkey cannot be discussed without reference to the Turkish Republic’s broader efforts to rapidly Westernise...

.... Körner’s writings on Turkish revisionist Qur’an hermeneutics depicted Turkish theology in a unique position to undertake a truly modern Muslim approach to the Qur’an. This chapter raises the concern that when the standard that constitutes a truly “modern” approach is brought in from outside Turkish...

... Dārimī Saʿīd b al Musayyab Potiphar Arabic Narrative Narrative Qur’an tafsīr sīrah and hadith Epistemology Literary Construction Arabic Literary Tradition Aanagnorisis From the epistemology of a narrative paragon, Joseph in the the Qurʾan, we move on in this chapter to consider three case...

... ʿan al munkar Jerusalem munkar Arabic Narrative Narrative Qur’an Surah Epistemology Aanagnorisis Literary Construction Arabic Literary Tradition Recognition and Discovery Given the importance of Surah 12 as the paragon of all storytelling in the Qurʾan, it should not surprise us to find...

... Radia Rome ancient and the Roman Empire Tuwayrani Hasan Husni al Amin Qasim Barbara St consumption gendered domesticity nationalism writing of by Arab intellectuals body the Orientalism and Orientalists paratexts parenting Qur’an sex work Turkey Fawwaz Zaynab Midhat Ahmet seclusion...

... Michael Schacht Joseph Al Sayyid Ridwan Byzantium and Byzantines Chabbi Jacqueline Mottahedeh Roy Umayyad Umayyads Sizgorich Thomas Egypt jihād Yemen Qur’an Jihad Tafsīr al-Khams Miʾat Ā ya min al-Qurʾān al-Karīm Kitāb al-Nāsikh wa-l-mansūkh Muqātil b. Sulaymān Abū ʿUbayd Understanding...

...Discusses the conversion of Qur’anic writing from ambiguously majestic Kufic scripts to the elegantly legible scripts developed by Ibn Muqla (d. 940) and Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022), focusing on a substantial group of Qur’an manuscripts made between the 10^th and 11^th centuries...

... narrative deferment blindness Ibrāhīm Arberry Arthur J reunion Christianity Laṭāʾif al ishārāt al Qushayrī al Qushayrī Abū l Qāsim poetry Sufism maʾāl turning points kashf Arabic Narrative Narrative Qur’an Islamic Exegesis Recognition Epistemology Literary Construction Arabic Literary...