Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

List of Contributors

Part 1 Islamic Exegesis and Tradition: Formative and Classical Period

Chapter 1 “A Plaything for Kings”

Chapter 2 Remnants of an Old Tafsīr Tradition?

Chapter 3 Muqātil on Zayd and Zaynab

Chapter 4 Asbāb al-Nuzūl as a Technical Term

Chapter 5 Laylat al-Qadr as Sacred Time

Chapter 6 Is There Covenant Theology in Islam?

Part 2 The Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Studies: Issues and Themes

Chapter 7 The Qurʾān’s Enchantment of the World

Chapter 8 Messianism and the Shadow of History

Chapter 9 Some Reflections on Borrowing, Influence, and the Entwining of Jewish and Islamic Traditions; or, What an Image of a Calf Might Do

Chapter 10 Inheriting Egypt: The Israelites and the Exodus in the Meccan Qurʾān

Chapter 11 Re-examining Textual Boundaries

Chapter 12 Philology and the Meaning of Sūrat al-Burūj

Chapter 13 A Flawed Prophet? Noah in the Qurʾān and Qurʾanic Commentary

Part 3 Islam, Qurʾān, and Tafsīr: Modern Discussions

Chapter 14 An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus

Chapter 15 Reading the Qurʾān Chronologically

Chapter 16 The Fig, the Olive, and the Cycles of Prophethood

Chapter 17 The “Scientific Miracle of the Qurʾān”

Chapter 18 Locating the “Esoteric” in Islamic Studies

Chapter 19 Western Non-Muslim Qurʾanic Studies in Muslim Academic Contexts

A Concluding Appreciation

Andrew Rippin : La sainte sagesse et le saint silence

Appendix Publications by Andrew Rippin

Index