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1. Frontmatter i
2. FOREWORD TO THE REVISED EDITION v
3. THE CONTENTS ix
4. Introduction xi
5. CHAPTER ONE. The Historical Context
6. 1. The international situation 1
7. 2. Life in Arabia 3
8. 3. Muḥammad’s career 9
9. Annex A. Chronology of Muḥammad’s career 15
10. Annex B. Ḥanīf 16
11. CHAPTER TWO. Muḥammad’s Prophetic Experience
12. 1. Criticisms of the claim to prophethood 17
13. 2. Qur’ānic descriptions of revelation and prophethood 18
14. 3. The conception of the prophetic function 25
15. 4. The writing down of the Qur’ān 30
16. CHAPTER THREE. The History of the Text
17. 1. The collection’ of the Qur’ān 40
18. 2. The pre-‘Uthmānic codices 44
19. 3. The writing of the Qur’an and early textual studies 47
20. 4. The authenticity and completeness of the Qur’ān 50
21. CHAPTER FOUR. The External Form of the Qur’ān
22. 1. Its name and liturgical divisions 57
23. 2. The suras and verses 57
24. 3. The mysterious letters 61
25. 4. The dramatic form 65
26. CHAPTER FIVE. Features of Qur’ānic Style
27. 1. Rhymes and strophes 69
28. 2. Various didactic forms 75
29. 3. The language of the Qur’ān 82
30. CHAPTER SIX. The Shaping of the Qur’ān
31. 1. The theory of abrogation and the possibility of revision 86
32. 2. Evidences of revision and alteration 89
33. 3. Bell’s hypothesis o f written documents 101
34. CHAPTER SEVEN. The Chronology of the Qur’ān
35. 1. Traditional Islamic views of dating 108
36. 2. European theories of dating 109
37. 3. The sequence of ideas as a guide to chronology 114
38. CHAPTER EIGHT. The Names of the Revealed Message
39. 1. Signs 121
40. 2. Stories of punishment; al-mathānī 127
41. 3. The Qur’ān 135
42. 4. The Book 141
43. 5. Other names 144
44. CHAPTER NINE. The Doctrines of the Qur’ān
45. 1. The doctrine o f God 148
46. 2. Other spiritual beings 153
47. 3. Prophethood; other religions 156
48. 4. The doctrine of the Last Judgement 158
49. 5. Regulations for the life o f the community 162
50. CHAPTER TEN. Muslim Scholarship and the Qur’ān
51. 1. Interpretation and exegesis 167
52. 2. The theologians 170
53. CHAPTE ELEVEN. The Qur’ān and Occidental Scholarship
54. 1. Translations and studies 173
55. 2. Problems facing the non-Muslim scholar 181
56. Abbreviations 187
57. Notes 189
58. Table for converting verse-numbers 202
59. Table o f suras with chronology, etc. 205
60. Index to the Qur’ān 215
61. Index to the Introduction 241