The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage

by Angelika Neuwirth

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific community in the Late Antique Arabian peninsula, one which was exposed to the wider worlds of the Byzantine and Sasanian empires, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199928959
• ISBN13: 9780199928958
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.5"