ForewordIntroductionI: Frameworks1. Not Eastern and not Western (lÄsharqÄ«yyatan wa-lÄgharbÄ«yyatan, Q. 24:35): Locating the Qur'an within the History of Scholarship2. The Discovery of Writing in the Qur'an: Tracing an Epistemic Revolution in Late Antiquity3. A Religious Transformation in Late Antiquity. From Tribal Genealogy to Divine Covenant: Qur'anic Refigurations of Pagan-Arab Ideals Based on Biblical Models4. Glimpses of Paradise in the World and Lost Aspects of the World in the Hereafter: Two Qur'anic Re-readings of Biblical PsalmsII: The Liturgical Qur'an and the Emergence of the Community5. Images and Metaphors in the Introductory Sections of the Early Meccan Suras6.
From Recitation through Liturgy to Canon: Notes on the Emergence of the Sura Composition and its Dissolution in the Course of the Development of Islamic Ritual7. Referentiality and Textuality in SÅ«rat al-Hijr (Q. 15): Some Observations on the Qur anic Canonical Process and the Emergence of a Community8. SÅ«rat al-FÄtiha: Opening of the Textual Corpus of the Qur'an or Introit of the Prayer Service?9. From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: SÅ«rat al-IsrÄ", between Text and Commentary10. The Discovery of Evil in the Qur'an?: Revisiting Qur'anic Versions of the Decalogue in the Context of Pagan-Arab Late AntiquityIII: Narrative Figures between the Bible and the Qur an11. Crisis and Memory: The Qur'an's Path towards Canonisation as Reflected in its Anthropogonic Accounts12. Narrative as a Canonical Process: The Story of Moses Seen through the Evolving History of the Qur'an13.
Imagining Mary, Disputing Jesus: Reading SÅ«rat Maryam and Related Meccan Texts within the Qur'anic Communication Process14. Mary and Jesus: Counterbalancing the Biblical Patriarchs: A Re-reading of SÅ«rat Maryam in SÅ«rat Äel "DImrÄn (Q. 3:1 62)15. Oral Scriptures in Contact: The Qur'anic Story of the Golden Calf and its Biblical Subtext between Narrative, Cult, and Inter-communal Debate16. Myths and Legends in the Qur'an: An Itinerary through its Narrative Landscape.