Studien Zur Komposition Der Mekkanischen Suren - Die Literarische Form Des Koran - Ein Zeugnis Seiner Historizitat? (German, Hardcover, 2nd Rev. , with an Updated Bibliography and an Introduction Into the History of the Qur'an ed.)

The Qura (TM)an is an orally composed poetical text which Muslimshave always known mainly in the form of oral recitation. Western scholarship however has hardly ever read it as literature, on account of the inaccessibility of its structure,and insteadhas used it mainly to mine theological or legislative statements. Angelika Neuwirth brings order to this supposed chaos by demonstrating meaningful compositional structures for the Makkan suras of the Qura (TM)an. This 2nd edition has been extended to include a new study which examines the suras as pointing to a historical development in the preaching of the Qura (TM)an and the formation of a community.