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The Ascetic Qurâan and Its Kharijite Readers
Series: - Texts and Studies on the QurʾÄn, Volume: 24
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Research on Islamic asceticism frequently highlights practices and ideas described in premodern Islamic literature on renunciation (zuhd). This study redirects our attention to the Qurâanâs ascetic dimension and its reception in the poems and sermons of the Kharijites, an early Islamic group known for extreme piety. It sheds light on the Qurâanâs engagement with late antique ascetic ideas, notably regarding scriptural reading and recitation. In their reception of the Qurâan, the Kharijites developed practices of reading and recitation characterized by the interiorization and enactment of scripture. This book offers a new view of the religious culture of the first and early second centuries of Islam through the lens of an understudied group and its attempts to put the Qurâan into practice.
Nora K. Schmid (Ph.D. Freie Universität Berlin, 2018), is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen. She has previously held research and teaching positions at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Hamburg, and the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the Qurâan, Islamic asceticism, Islamic religious literature, and Islamic law.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and other Formal Conventions
Introduction
1 Asceticized Arabia
2 Competing Recitational Paradigms in the Qurâan
3 Ascetic Dimensions of Reading/Recitation in the Meccan Suras
4 Internalizing and Enacting Godâs Word: Ascetic Striving in Late Meccan and Medinan Suras
5 Kharijite Origins between Myth, History, and Poetry
6 Internalization of Scripture and Kharijite Identity Formation
7 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qurâan in Early Kharijite Poetry
8 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qurâan in Sermons of Kharijites and Renunciants
Conclusion: Asceticism in the Qurâan and Kharijite Compositions
Appendix 1: A Tentative Classification of Late Antique Asceticism
Appendix 2: Select Sermons
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
Note on Translation, Transliteration, and other Formal Conventions
Introduction
Part 1 Ascetic Reading/Recitation in the Qurâan
1 Asceticized Arabia
2 Competing Recitational Paradigms in the Qurâan
3 Ascetic Dimensions of Reading/Recitation in the Meccan Suras
4 Internalizing and Enacting Godâs Word: Ascetic Striving in Late Meccan and Medinan Suras
Part 2 The Kharijites Reading/Reciting the Qurâan
5 Kharijite Origins between Myth, History, and Poetry
6 Internalization of Scripture and Kharijite Identity Formation
7 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qurâan in Early Kharijite Poetry
8 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qurâan in Sermons of Kharijites and Renunciants
Conclusion: Asceticism in the Qurâan and Kharijite Compositions
Appendix 1: A Tentative Classification of Late Antique Asceticism
Appendix 2: Select Sermons
Bibliography
Index
Researchers and specialists in Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Near/Middle Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, Islamic Theology (and institutes and faculties), post-graduate students in these fields.