Mehdi Azaiez, Gabriel Said Reynolds, Tommaso Tesei, Hamza M.

Zafer (Eds.)

THE QUR'AN SEMINAR

COMMENTARY / LE QUR'AN
SEMINAR
A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages / Commentaire
collaboratif de 50 passages coraniques

The present volume is the work of 25 scholars who represent various xx, 487 pages
specializations important to the study of the Qur'an, including Arabic language, Hardcover:
comparative Semitic linguistics, paleography, epigraphy, history, rhetorical RRP *€ [D] 99.95 / *US$ 140.00 /
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theory, hermeneutics, and Biblical studies. The starting point of this work was a ISBN 978-3-11-044479-7
series of five international conferences on the Qur'an at the University of Notre eBook:
Dame over the academic year 2012-13, although the commentaries contributed RRP *€ [D] 99.95 / *US$ 140.00 /
during those conferences have been carefully edited to avoid repetition. Readers *GBP 74.99
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of The Qur'an Seminar Commentary will find that the 50 passages selected for EPUB ISBN 978-3-11-044545-9
inclusion in this work include many of the most important and influential Print/eBook:
elements of the Qur'an, including: RRP *€ [D] 149.95 / *US$ 210.00 /
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- Q 1, al-Fatiha
- Q 2:30-39, the angelic prostration before Adam Date of Publication: November 2016

- Q 2:255, the “Throne Verse” Language of Publication: English, French,

- Q 3:7, the muhkamat and mutashabihat Subjects:

Religious Studies Islam
- Q 4:3, polygamy and monogamy 

- Q 5:112-15, the table (al-ma'ida) from heaven Of interest to: Scholars and students in
Qur'anic, Islamic and Biblical Studies
- Q 9:29, fighting the People of the Book and the jizya
- Q 12, the story of Joseph
- Q 24:45, the “Light Verse”
- Q 33:40, the “seal of the prophets”
- Q 53, the “satanic verses”
- Q 96, including the passage often described as the “first revelation”
- Q 97, the “night of qadr”
- Q 105, the “Companions of the Elephant”
- Q 112, on God and the denial of a divine son

The collaborative nature of this work, which involves a wide range of scholars
discussing the same passages from different perspectives, offers readers with an
unprecedented diversity of insights on the Qur'anic text.

Mehdi Azaiez, KU Leuven, Belgium; Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of

Notre Dame, IN, USA.
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