Notes on ContributorsIntroduction Ana Davitashvili Part 1: Prophets and Humans Surrounding Them 1. A Talking New-born (Q 19:30), Aaron's Sister (Q 19:28), Mary who is not God (Q 5:116): Quranic Cruces and their Syriac Intertexts Nestor Kavvadas 2. "You crucified him and you killed him; except that God raised him": Creedal Patterns and the Quranic Crucifixion Ryann Elizabeth Craig 3. One Prophet, Two Narratives: Temporal Sequence of Jonah's Story in Late Antiquity Mohammad Ghandehari MohammadReza Moini 4. Moses's Mother as a Prophetological Figure: The Qur'an's Reception of the Story of the Birth of Moses Mohammad Haghani Fazl 5. "Perennial Enemies" in the Qur'an's Prophetology: A Refiguring of Christian Anti-Jewish Motifs? Jacob M. Kildoo Part 2: Non-Military and Military Jihads 6. Life as a Spiritual Struggle with the Evil One in Pre-Islamic Syriac Texts: The Theological Background to the Qur'anic Idea of Spiritual Jihad ? Christian Lange 7.

Thirst for Killing and Being Killed in the Syriac Eusebius Narrative and the Qur'an Dmitrij F. Bumazhnov Part 3: Darkness and Light 8. Unbelief, Protection, and Containers: Dark Metaphors between the Quran and Syriac Writings Johanne Louise Christiansen 9. The Garment of Light and Glory in the Quran? Further Notes on libas in Q 7:27 in Light of Quranic Verses and pre-Islamic Syriac Texts Ana Davitashvili Part 4: Garden and Fire 10. The Recension of Ephrem's Hymns on Paradise in the Quran Daniel Bannoura 11. Damned Accusers and Fueled Fires: On the Syriac Reception of Daniel 3 and the Aab al-Ukhdud in Q 85:4-11 Lasse Løvlund Toft Part 5: The Quran an Essential Source for Syriac Christianity and a Syriac Text an Essential Source for the Quran? 12. Bodily Purity in Syrian Christianity and the Qur'an Mark Hoover 13. The Cave of Treasures and the Quran: A Reappraisal Gavin McDowell General IndexIndex of Qur'anic Verses.