The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 2.1: Early Middle Meccan Suras: The New Elect 2.1

The second volume of a world-renowned scholar’s long-awaited Qur’an commentary, now available in English Angelika Neuwirth’s six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure, and semantic message of each of the 114 Qur’anic suras. It brings together the fruits of the past hundred years of scholarship and provides access to the aesthetic, theological, linguistic, and semantic background required to appreciate the novelty, force, and historical position of the Qur’an. Contextualizing the Qur’anic message in the broader world of late antiquity, it bridges the gap between the inner-Islamic scholarly world and the academy. Skillfully translated by Samuel Wilder, this volume focuses on the early middle Meccan suras. Frontmatter CONTENTS PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION EARLY MIDDLE MECCAN SURAS Q 1 al-fātiḥa The Opening SURA GROUP I Q 54 al-qamar The Moon Q 37 al-şāffāt Those Arrayed in Rows Q 15 Al-Ḥijr Ḥijr Q 50 qāf Qāf SURA GROUP II Q 20 ṭā hā Tāhā Q 26 al-shuʿarāʾ The Poets Q 71 Nūḥ Noah Q 44 al-dukhān The Smoke INDIVIDUAL SURAS Q 76 al-insān The Human Being Q 38 Sād Sād Q 19 Maryam Mary APPENDIX: SECONDARY ADDITIONS TO THE EARLY-MIDDLE MECCAN SURAS (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE SURAS) BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX OF CITATIONS INDEX OF THE SURAS IN THE TRADITIONAL SEQUENCE SUBJECT INDEX