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By addressing various aspects of the Qur'an's linguistic and historical context and offering close readings of selected passages in the light of Jewish, Christian, and ancient Arabic literature, the volume seeks to stimulate a new interaction between literary and historical scholarship. This title is available as paperback.

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L'originalite et la richesse des articles de cet ouvrage ne peuvent qu'augmenter l'impatience de tous ceux qui attendent la publication de ce que les chercheurs du projet Corpus Coranicum annoncent comme la premiere edition critique du Coran. J. Dean in Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses 91.1 (2011)

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Angelika Neuwirth is professor of Arabic literature at the Free University of Berlin. She has published extensively on the Qur'an and on contemporary Arabic literature. Nicolai Sinai is a researcher at the Corpus Coranicum project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He is the author of a recent monograph on the Qur'an and early Qur'anic exegesis. Michael Marx is currently administrative director of Corpus Coranicum. His main fields of interest are the Qur'an, its transmission history, and interreligious polemics in Islamic culture.

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