New Digital Resources: Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān
The Qur'ān is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world’s population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'ānic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'ānic studies.
Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān (EQ) is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. Included are articles on Life after Death, Khadīja (the prophet's first wife), Marriage and Divorce, Consecration of Animals, Good and Evil, Obedience, and Satanic Verses.
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With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'ān to appear in a Western language. It is also available in print in the Rivera Library's Reference Collection, Ref BP133 .E65 2001. |
Search tips:
- Place phrases in double quotes, eg "arabic script"
- Include ~ at the end of words if unsure of spelling, eg. apostesy~ for apostasy
- Use BROWSE to view the titles of all the articles
- To find Qur'ān sura and verse, key in the numbers in the search field, including the double qoutes, eg "1.1".
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