ABSTRACT
William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work.
Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many different aspects of Islamic scripture, from textual interpretation and hermeneutics to recitation and parallels with the Bible. Other chapters tackle in diverse ways the question of what it means to be "Islamic" and how such an identity may be constituted and maintained in history, thought, and learning. A final section reflects on the career of William Graham and the relation of scholarship to the undervalued tasks of academic administration, especially where the study of religion is concerned.
This book will be of interest to readers of Islamic Studies, Qur’anic Studies, Islamic history, Religious Studies, scripture, exegesis, and history of the book. Given Graham’s role at the Harvard Divinity School, and the discussions of how he has shaped the study of religion, the volume should be of interest to readership across the study of religion as a whole.
Chapters 2 and 15 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|90 pages
Textual Studies on the Qurʾan
chapter 1|20 pages
The Written Torah and the Oral Qurʾan in Pagan Mecca
part II|122 pages
Qurʾan as Scripture
chapter 6|33 pages
Principles of Qurʾanic Exegesis and Qurʾanic Revelation in “Seven Ways of Reading”
chapter 8|16 pages
Al-Māturīdī (d. 333/944), Early Sunni Exegesis, and Muʿtazilism
part III|90 pages
The “Islamic” in Islamic History
chapter 13|10 pages
And Muhammad Is His Messenger
part IV|20 pages
William A. Graham as Colleague and Administrator