The Qur'an in Its Historical Context

Introduction: Quraanic Studies and Its Controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Quraan in Recent Scholarship: Challenges and Disiderata / Fred M. Donner -- Epigraphy and the Linguistic Background to the Quraan / Robert Hoyland -- Recent Research on the Construction of the Quraan / Gerhard Bowering -- Reconsidering the Authorship of the Quraan: Is the Quraan Partly the Fruit of a Progressive and Collective Work? / Claude Gilliot -- Christian Lore and the Arabic Quraan: the "Companions of the Cave" in Surat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian Tradition / Sidney Griffith -- The Theological Christian Influence on the Quraan: a Reflection / Samir Khalil Samir -- Mary in the Quraan: a Reexamination of Her Presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad -- The Alexander Legend in the Quraan 18:83-102 / Kevin Van Bladel -- Beyond Single Words: Maida - Shaytan - jibt and taghut. Mechanisms of Transmission into the Ethiopic (Ge-ez) Bible and the Quraanic Text / Manfred Kropp -- Nascent Islam in the Seventh Century Syriac Sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi -- Notes on Medieval and Modern Emendations of the Quraan / Devin J. Stewart -- Syriac in the Quraan: Classical Muslim Theories / Andrew Rippin.

Gabriel Said Reynolds is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame, where he specializes in Qur'anic Studies.