Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, Vol. 4: P-SH - Hardcover

9789004123557: Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an, Vol. 4: P-SH

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004123555 ISBN 13: 9789004123557

Publisher: Brill, 2004

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

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"'The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an is an higly prestigious and competent volume from a superb publisher with contributions by the world's leading experts. If readers were to own one volume on this topic, this work would be the encylopedia to own. The first volume is carefully and masterfully crafted and provides the expectation of valuable work to come...the scholarly community looks forward to future volumes.' Linda L. Lam-Easton, American Reference Book Annual, Vol. 34. 'The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'anis a masterful, comprehensive book...' Discourse, 2001."

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