Foreword
Introduction
I. Frameworks
1. Not Eastern and not Western (lāsharqīyyatan wa-lāgharbīyyatan, Q. 24:35): Locating the Qurʾan within the History of Scholarship
2. The Discovery of Writing in the Qurʾan: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Late Antiquity
3. A Religious Transformation in Late Antiquity. From Tribal Genealogy to Divine Covenant: Qurʾanic Refigurations of Pagan-Arab Ideals Based on Biblical Models
4. Glimpses of Paradise in the World and Lost Aspects of the World in the Hereafter: Two Qurʾanic Re-readings of Biblical Psalms
II. The Liturgical Qurʾan and the Emergence of the Community
5. Images and Metaphors in the Introductory Sections of the Early Meccan Suras
6. From Recitation through Liturgy to Canon: Notes on the Emergence of the Sura Composition and its Dissolution in the Course of the Development of Islamic Ritual
.7. Referentiality and Textuality in Sūrat al-Hijr (Q. 15): Some Observations on the Qur anic Canonical Process and the Emergence of a Community
8. Sūrat al-Fātiha: Opening of the Textual Corpus of the Qurʾan or Introit of the Prayer Service?
9. From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: Sūrat al-Isrāʾ, between Text and Commentary
10. The Discovery of Evil in the Qurʾan?: Revisiting Qurʾanic Versions of the Decalogue in the Context of Pagan-Arab Late Antiquity
III. Narrative Figures between the Bible and the Qurʾan
11. Crisis and Memory: The Qurʾan's Path towards Canonisation as Reflected in its Anthropogonic Accounts
12. Narrative as a Canonical Process: The Story of Moses Seen through the Evolving History of the Qurʾan
13. Imagining Mary, Disputing Jesus: Reading Sūrat Maryam and Related Meccan Texts within the Qurʾanic Communication Process
.14. Mary and Jesus: Counterbalancing the Biblical Patriarchs: A Re-reading of Suūrat Maryam in Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q. 3:1 62)
15. Oral Scriptures in Contact: The Qurʾanic Story of the Golden Calf and its Biblical Subtext between Narrative, Cult, and Inter-communal Debate
16. Myths and Legends in the Qurʾan: An Itinerary through its Narrative Landscape.
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Scripture, poetry, and the making of a community : reading the Qurʾan as a literary text by Angelika Neuwirth. ISBN 9780198701644. Published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
