Acta universitatis upsaliensis
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Published: 1918
Total Pages: 892
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Mecca and Eden
Author: Brannon Wheeler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0226888045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth-century philologist and Biblical critic William Robertson Smith famously concluded that the sacred status of holy places derives not from their intrinsic nature but from their social character. Building upon this insight, Mecca and Eden uses Islamic exegetical and legal texts to analyze the rituals and objects associated with the sanctuary at Mecca. Integrating Islamic examples into the comparative study of religion, Brannon Wheeler shows how the treatment of rituals, relics, and territory is related to the more general mythological depiction of the origins of Islamic civilization. Along the way, Wheeler considers the contrast between Mecca and Eden in Muslim rituals, the dispersal and collection of relics of the prophet Muhammad, their relationship to the sanctuary at Mecca, and long tombs associated with the gigantic size of certain prophets mentioned in the Quran. Mecca and Eden succeeds, as few books have done, in making Islamic sources available to the broader study of religion.
Moses in the Qur'an and Islamic Exegesis
Author: Brannon M. Wheeler
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1136128980
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelating the Muslim understanding of Moses in the Qur'an to the Epic of Gilgamesh, Alexander Romances, Aramaic Targums, Rabbinic Bible exegesis, and folklore from the ancient and medieval Mediterranean, this book shows how Muslim scholars authorize and identify themselves through allusions to the Bible and Jewish tradition. Exegesis of Qur'an 18:60-82 shows how Muslim exegetes engage Biblical theology through interpretation of the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and their Torah. This Muslim use of a scripture shared with Jews and Christians suggests fresh perspectives for the history of religions, Biblical studies, cultural studies, and Jewish-Arabic studies.
Bibliography
Author: Jacques Waardenburg
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9789027979711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 440
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Proceedings
Author: Linnean Society of London
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 654
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCatholic and Reformed
Author: Anthony Milton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-09
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780521893299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging account of religious controversy between Catholic and Protestant before the Civil War.
Islamic and Comparative Religious Studies
Author: William A. Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1351925962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam A Graham, a leading international scholar in the field of Islamic Studies, gathers together his selected writings under three sections: 1.History and Interpretation of Islamic Religion; 2.The Qur'an as Scripture, and 3. Scripture in the History of Religion. Each section opens with a new introduction by Graham, and a bibliography of his works is included. Graham's work in Islamic studies focuses largely on the analysis and interpretation of the religious dimensions of ritual action, scriptural piety, textual authority/revelation, tradition, and major concepts, such as grace and transcendence. His work in the comparative history of religion has focused in particular on the 'problem' of scripture as a cross-cultural religious phenomenon that is more complex than simply 'sacred text'. This invaluable resource will be of primary interest to students of the Islamic tradition, especially as regards Qur'anic piety, Muslim 'ritual' practice, and fundamental structures of Islamic thought, and to students of the comparative history of religion, especially as regards the phenomenon of 'scripture' and its analogs.
