An accessible and up-to-date introduction to the study of the Qur'an in its historical contextThe Qur'an represents both Islam's historical point of origin and its scriptural …
In Between Empires Greg Fisher tackles the problem of pre-Islamic Arab identity by examining the relationship between the Roman Empire and the Empire of Sasanian Iran …
This book is a study of related passages found in the Arabic Qur'ān and the Aramaic Gospels, ie the Gospels preserved in the Syriac and Christian Palestinian Aramaic dialects …
Luminos is the Open Access monograph publishing program from UC Press. Luminos provides a framework for preserving and reinvigorating monograph publishing for the future …
Much of the world today is convulsed in an epic struggle between the Christian West and Islam. Scholars seeking to understand the issues look back in history to unearth the roots of …
In al-Ḥīra: Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this Late Antique Arab metropolis, located on the frontier between …
Angels are a basic tenet of belief in Islam, appearing in various types and genres of text, from eschatology to law and theology to devotional material. This book presents the first …
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Both the Muslim exegetical tradition and most Western scholarship have posited that the term islām in the Quran means “submission”, ie to God, and that it refers to the religion …
The papers in this volume were presented at a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar held at the University of Oxford in 2009-2010, which sought to investigate side by side the two important …