The Qur’an in Its Historical Context

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The Qur’an in Its Historical Context is written by Gabriel Reynolds and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134109458 (ISBN 10) and 9781134109456 (ISBN 13).

Providing commentary on the controversial revisionist school of Qur’anic studies, this book explores the origins, scholarship and development of the Qur'an. The collection of articles, each written by a distinguished author, treat very familiar passages of the Qur’an in an original manner, combining thorough philology, historical anthropology, and cultural history. This book addresses in a critical fashion the hottest issues in recent works on the Quran. Among other things, the contributors analyze the controversial theories of Luxenberg regarding Syriac and the Quran, and in particular his argument that the term Hur refers not to virgins but to grapes.