The Needle in the Haystack: Islamic Origins and the Nature of the Early Sources

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table Of Contents vii
3. Abbreviations xv
4. Preface xvii
5. John Wansbrough and the Problem of Islamic Origins in Recent Scholarship: A Farewell to the Traditional Account xix
6. Part One: Formative Islam Within Its Jewish-Christian Milieu
7. Des textes Pseudo Clementins à la mystique Juive des premiers siecles et du Sinaï a Ma’rib 3
8. On the Qur`ān’s Mā`ida Passage and the Wanderings of the Israelites 91
9. Prayer and the Desert Fathers 109
10. Friday Veneration in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Christianity and Christian Legends about the Conversion of Nağrān 131
11. Thematic and Structural Affinities between 1 Enoch and the Qur’ān: a Contribution to the Study of the Judaeo-Christian Apocalyptic Setting of the Early Islamic Faith 231
12. Part Two: Revisiting Some Early Islamic Sources, Facts, And Interpretative Issues
13. The Needle in the Haystack: Islamic Origins and the Nature of the Early Sources 271
14. “All We Know is What We Have Been Told”: Reflections on Emigration and Land as Divine Heritage in the Qur’ān 303
15. L’analyse rhetorique face à la critique historique de J. Wansbrough et de G. Lüling 343
16. Mohammed’s Exegetical Activity in the Meccan Arabic Lectionary 371
17. The Search for Ţuwā: Exegetical Method, Past and Present 399
18. Who is the ‘other’ Paraclete? 423