Overview
The Qur'an is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'anic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'anic studies. Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's ""Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an"" (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language.
Full Product Details
Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 17.50cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 26.00cm
Weight: 1.510kg
ISBN: 9789004123564
ISBN 10: 9004123563
Pages: 596
Publication Date: 29 December 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'McAuliffe's encyclopedia promises to become the central English-language reference work for qur'anic studies' P. S. Spaulding, Illinois College, Choice, 2002 'The first volume fulfills the project's aim to summarize recent decades of scholarship and will without doubt fulfill another aim, to inspire new work in the decades to come. Enthusiastically recommended for all readership levels.' P. S. Spaulding, Illinois College, Choice, 2002 'The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an is an higly prestigious and competent volume from a superb publisher with contributions by the world's leading experts. If readers were to own one volume on this topic, this work would be the encylopedia to own. The first volume is carefully and masterfully crafted and provides the expectation of valuable work to come...the scholarly community looks forward to future volumes.' Linda L. Lam-Easton, American Reference Book Annual, Vol. 34. 'The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an is a masterful, comprehensive book...' Discourse, 2001. 'The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an will be a truly collaborative enterprise, carried out by Muslims and non-Muslims, and its articles will present multiple approaches to the interpretation of the Qur'an... A turn-of-the-millennium summative work for the state of qur'anic scholarship.' Atlantic Monthly, 1999
Author Information
Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Ph.D. (Georgetown University, Washington) is Professor of History and Professor of Arabic.
