1st Edition

Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds In Search of the Original Qur’an

By Munther Younes Copyright 2019
118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

118 Pages
by Routledge

Charging Steeds or Maidens Performing Good Deeds: In Search of the Original Qur'ān brings an important contribution to understanding the development of the Qur'ānic corpus. Through a selection of meaningful case studies, the author convincingly argues for a different interpretative approach to the Qur’ānic text. Taking as a starting point the consonantal skeleton of the holy text, known as... Read more

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Q106 (Quraysh)

Chapter Three: Q90 (al-Balad)

Chapter Four: The Opening Verses of Q79 (al-Nāzi‘āt)

Chapter Five: Q100 (al-ʿĀdiyāt)

Chapter Six: Conclusions

References

Biography

Munther Younes is Reis Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language and Linguistics and Director of the Arabic Program in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of The Routledge Introduction to Qur’anic Arabic and the ‘Arabiyyat al-Naas textbook series.