Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Expanded table of contents vii
4. Figures ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part one Background
7. 1 Some basic features of the Qur’an 11
8. 2 Muhammad and the Qur’an 40
9. 3 The Qur’anic milieu 59
10. Part two Method
11. 4 Literary coherence and secondary revision 81
12. 5 Inner-Qur’anic chronology 111
13. 6 Intertextuality 138
14. Part three A diachronic survey of the Qur’anic proclamations
15. 7 The Meccan surahs 161
16. 8 The Medinan surahs 188
17. Bibliography 215
18. Index of concepts, names, and Arabic terms 234
19. Index of Qur’anic passages 239