The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Midrash

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Methodological Considerations
5. The Current Status and Problems of Islamic Origins 11
6. A New Arabic Apocryphon from Late Antiquity: The Qurʾān 29
7. II Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Historical, Literary, and Cross-Comparative Analyses
8. Body Parts Nomenclature in the Qur’anic Corpus 45
9. The Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Late Antique Midrash 85
10. Standing under the Mountain: Jewish and Christian Threads to a Qur’anic Construction 97
11. Mapping the Sources of the Qur’anic Jesus 153
12. The Natural Theology of the Qur’ān and Its Late Antique Christian Background: A Preliminary Outline 177
13. III Early Islam and the Qur’ān: Social, Political, and Religious Contexts
14. Q 2:102, 43:31, and Ctesiphon-Seleucia 203
15. Prophecies Fulfilled: The Qur’anic Arabs in the Early 600s 231
16. The Sasanian Conquest of Ḥimyar Reconsidered: In Search of a Local Hero 259
17. Contextual Readings of Religious Statements in Early Islamic Inscriptions 275
18. The Gods of the Qur’ān: The Rise of Ḥijāzī Henotheism during Late Antiquity 297
19. “One Community to the Exclusion of Other People”: A Superordinate Identity in the Medinan Community 325
20. List of Contributors 377