Ebook: The Qur'an in context: historical and literary investigations into the Qur'ānic milieu

Introduction / Nicolai Sinai, Angelika Neuwirth -- The martyrs of Najrān and the end of the Himyar : on the political history of South Arabia in the early sixth century / Norbert Nebes -- Arabia in late antiquity : an outline of the cultural situation in the Peninsula at the time of Muhammad / Barbara Finster -- Mecca on the caravan routes in pre-Islamic antiquity / Mikhail D. Bukharin -- Early Islam in the light of Christian and Jewish sources / Harald Suermann -- The evolving representation of the early Islamic Empire and its religion on coin imagery / Stefan Heidemann -- Arabo-Aramaic and 'Arabiyya : from Ancient Arabic to early Standard Arabic, 200 CE-600 CE / Ernst Axel Knauf -- Literacy in pre-Islamic Arabia : an analysis of the epigraphic evidence / Peter Stein -- Arabs and Arabic in the age of the prophet / Jan Retsö -- Sources for the history of pre-Islamic religion / Tilman Seidensticker -- The 'Ibād of al-Ḥīra : an Arab Christian community in Late Antique Iraq / Isabel Toral-Niehoff -- An early Christian Arabic account of the creation of the world / Kirill Dmitriev -- The Qur'an and the prophet's poet : two poems by Ka'b b. Mālik / Agnes Imhof -- The Qur'an as process / Nicolai Sinai -- Quantitative text analysis and its application to the Qur'an : some preliminary considerations / Nora K. Schmid -- Al-Ḥawāmīm : intertextuality and coherence in Meccan surahs / Islam Dayeh -- The House of Abraham and the House of Amram : genealogy, patriarchal authority, and exegetical professionalism / Angelika Neuwirth -- Glimpses of the mariology in the Qur'an : from hagiography to theology via religious-political debate / Michael Marx -- The "seal of the prophets" : towards an understanding of Muhammad's prophethood / Hartmut Bobzin -- Reading the Qur'an as Homily : the case of Sarah's laughter / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Qur'anic commandment of writing down loan agreements (Q 2:282) -- Perspectives of a comparison with rabbinical law / Reimund Leicht -- Islam in its Arabian context / François de Blois -- Lost in philology? The virgins of paradise and the Luxenberg hypothesis / Stefan Wild -- The etymological fallacy and Qur'anic studies : Muhammad, paradise, and late antiquity / Walid A. Saleh -- The relevance of early Arabic poetry for Qur'anic studies including observations on Kull and on Q22:27, 26:225, and 52:31 / Thomas Bauer -- Qur'anic readings of the Psalms / Angelika Neuwirth -- The codification of the Qur'an : a comment on the hypotheses of Burton and Wansbrough / Gregor Schoeler -- The second Maṣāhif project : a step towards the canonization of the Qur'anic text / Omar Hamdan.