Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an CD Rom - Institutional license (6-10 users)

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-14623-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Sonstiges, Englisch, Gewicht: 89 g

The Qur'Än 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'Änic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'Änic studies.

Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's 'Encyclopaedia of the Qur'Än (EQ)' combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'Än. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'Änic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'Änic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the 'EQ' is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'Än to appear in a Western language.

'Cross-referencing and indices'
Frequent cross-references will draw readers to related entries and each article will conclude with a citation of relevant bibliography. The final part of the 'EQ' contains indices of transliterated terms, of qur'Änic references and of the authors and exegetes cited in the entries and essays.

'Fully international work'
The 'EQ' is a fully international work supported by an international board of advisors. Scholars from many nations have written articles for the encyclopaedia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McAuliffe, Jane Dammen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Ph.D. (Georgetown University, Washington DC) is Professor of History and Professor of Arabic. She has published 'Abbasid Authority Affirmed: The Early Years of al-Mansur' (State University of New York Press, 1995) and 'Qur'anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis' (Cambridge University Press, 1991).