... contribution to Christian Christology with the help of the Qur’an, by working through one of the fundamental problems in Muslim-Christian understanding: the meaning of Christ. Von Stosch aims to take the Islamic appreciation of Jesus of Nazareth as seriously as possible, to face the problems arising...

...Examines the diffusion throughout Western Europe of Latin translations of Islamic texts, such as the Qur’an, the Doctrina Mochometi, and the Liber scale Machometi. The Latin translations of the Qur’an by Robert of Ketton (1143), and by Marcos of Toledo (1210...

... rhyming, chiasmus, and other literary qualities of The Best Exposition,this chapter is an examination of how vernacular language can be part of a rhetorical project aimed at inscribing God's language. Best Exposition The “Khayr al bayān” Finnegans Wake Joyce imitation lettrism Qur’an...

...This chapter explores the Qur’an through Deleuze’s taxonomy of root-books, fascicular root-books, and rhizome-books, in part to challenge Deleuze’s passing reference to the Qur’an as a supremely authoritarian root-book that forbids interpretation. Thinking about Deleuze as a tool for engaging...

... major and minor forces that contest each other over authenticity, authority, and the making of “orthodoxy.” The discussions in Sufi Deleuze highlight Islam’s extraordinary range of possibilities, making use not only of canonically privileged materials such as the Qur’an and major hadith...

..., a new world of religious studies opened to culminate, after Arabic and Persian studies, in research on Christians in the Qur’an. Progress in teaching Christians about Islam in Atlanta, Georgia, and mainly Muslims back at Toronto, led to involvement in practical Christian-Muslim relations in North...

... traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic...

...Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS ar. 384, a copy of the Qur‘ān written in the eastern Mediterranean, contains two sets of Latin marginal notes from the thirteenth or early fourteenth centuries. Careful comparison of the second set of these notes with Riccoldo of Monte Croce’s Contra...

... by having his body split open. Medieval Islamic legends, and more subtly the Qur’an, describe an episode in which Muhammad’s chest is mystically opened and prophetic knowledge is embedded in his heart in order to signal his prophetic vocation. The essay compares this Islamic tradition to Dante’s portrayal...

... journey. His academic discipline has been in Qur’an commentary making a major contribution to the study of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. The chapter develops the thesis that “meaning lies in difference:” so cultures and religions acquire depth and significance in relation to one another not in isolation...