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" An Arabian Qur'ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins "
Suleyman Dost
Donner, Fred M.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804623
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TL49458
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1927908715; 10274401
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Cappella, Emilie
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An Arabian Qur'ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins\ Suleyman DostDonner, Fred M.
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The University of Chicago
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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2017
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309
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Committee members: Hasselbach-Andee, Rebecca; Sells, MIchael A.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-07818-3
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This dissertation aims to shed light on the Arabian context of the Qur’ān by using sources that securely predate the Qur’ān from in and immediately around the Arabian Peninsula, aiming to contribute to the traditionsgeschichte of the Qur’ān through a focused examination of lexical and thematic continuities from pre-qur’anic Arabian texts to the Qur’an. The sources that inform this study consist mostly of epigraphic materials written in Old South Arabian, Ancient North Arabian, Nabataean and, to a limited extent, Palmyrene. The image of the Qur’ān this dissertation draws, based on these sources, challenges John Wansbrough’s conclusions and the more recent findings of the Syriacist school about the Qur’ān’s origins. As a response to searching for the Qur’ān’s context in Palestinian and Babylonian centers of Judeo-Christian learning, I argue that the Qur’ān sustains a thematic and lexical continuity from the pre-Islamic Arabian sources that are available to us, and it owes more to the religious culture of Ancient South Arabia and Abyssinia than modern scholarship has evaluated so far.
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Religion; Middle Eastern history; Islamic Studies
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Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Arabian epigraphy;Early islamic history;Ethiopian christianity;Islamic origins;Qur'an
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Donner, Fred M.
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Near Eastern Languages and CivilizationsThe University of Chicago
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