The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur'an as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life. While retaining the literary approach to the subject, this new edition extends both the theological and philosophical approaches to the Qur'an.

Table of Contents

• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I: Orientation
• Chatper 1: Introducing
• Chapter 2: Discovering
• Chapter 3: Contextualizing
• Part II: Text
• Chapter 4: Linguistic Structure
• Chapter 5: Patterns of Address
• Chapter 6: Language
• Chapter 7: Poetry and Language
• Chapter 8: Foreign Vocabulary
• Chapter 9: Structure and the Emergence of Community
• Chapter 10: Sacrality and Collection
• Chapter 11: Written Transmission
• Chapter 12: Context
• Chapter 13: Context
• Part III: Content
• Chapter 14: God
• Chapter 15: Prophets and Prophethood
• Chapter 16: Moses
• Chapter 17: Abraham
• Chapter 18: Jesus
• Chapter 19: Biblical Background
• Chapter 20: Other Religions
• Chapter 21: Argumentation
• Chapter 22: Knowing and Thinking
• Chapter 23: Sex, Sexuality, and the Family
• Chapter 24: Jihād
• Part IV: Interpretation
• Chapter 25: Hermeneutics: al‐Thaʿlabī
• Chapter 26: Stories of the Prophets
• Chapter 27: Ṣūfism
• Chapter 28: Rūmī
• Chapter 29: Ibn al‐ʿArabī
• Chapter 30: Twelver Shīʿī Taʾwīl
• Chapter 31: Ismāʿīlī Taʾwīl
• Chapter 32: Modern and Contemporary Interpretation of the Qurʾān
• Part V: Application
• Chapter 33: Exegetical Sciences
• Chapter 34: Theology
• Chapter 35: Jurisprudence
• Chapter 36: Contemporary Ethical Issues
• Chapter 37: Narrative Literature
• Chapter 38: Recitation
• Bibliography