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Ana Davitashvili. The Qurʼan and Syriac Christianity: Recurring themes and motifs. Leiden : Brill, 2026.

Abstract

Scholars of Qurʾanic studies have commonly acknowledged the significance of pre-Islamic Syriac Christian literature for the study of the Qurʾan.By offering new evidence, the present volume refines and challenges the arguments of previous studies and unearths hitherto unexplored recurring themes and motifs.

Contents

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Series Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction (Davitashvili) -- Part 1. Prophets and Humans Surrounding Them -- Chapter 1. A Talking New-Born (Q 19:30), Aaron's Sister (Q 19:28), Mary Who Is Not God (Q 5:116): Qurʼanic Cruces and Their Syriac Intertexts (Kavvadas) -- Chapter 2. "You Crucified Him and You Killed Him -- Expect That God Raised Him": Creedal Patterns and the Qurʼanic Crucifixion (Craig); Chapter 3. One Prophet, Two Narratives: Temporal Sequence of Jonah's Story in Late Antiquity (Ghandehari and Moini) -- Chapter 4. Moses's Mother as a Prophetological Figure: The Qurʼan's Reception of the Story of the Birth of Moses (Haghani Fazl) -- Chapter 5. "Perennial Enemies" in the Qurʼan's Prophetology: A Refiguring of Christian Anti-Jewish Motifs? (Kildoo) -- Part 2. Non-military and Military Jihāds -- Chapter 6. Life as a Spiritual Struggle with the Evil One in Pre-Islamic Syriac Texts: The Theological Background to the Qurʼanic Idea of Spiritual Jihād? (Lange); Chapter 7. Thirst for Killing and Being Killed in the Syriac Eusebius Narrative and the Qurʼan (Bumazhnov) -- Part 3. Darkness and Light -- Chapter 8. Unbelief, Protection, and Containers: Dark Metaphors between the Qurʼan and Syriac Writings (Christiansen) -- Chapter 9. The Garment of Light and Glory in the Qurʼan? Further Notes on libās in Q 7:27 in Light of Qurʼanic Verses and Pre-Islamic Syriac Texts (Davitashvili) -- Part 4. Garden and Fire -- Chapter 10. The Recension of Ephrem's Hymns on Paradise in the Qurʼan (Bannoura); Chapter 11. Damned Accusers and Fueled Fires: On the Syriac Reception of Daniel 3 and the Aṣḥāb al-Ukhdūd in Q 85:4-11 (Toft) -- Part 5. The Qurʼan an Essential Source for Syriac Christianity and a Syriac Text an Essential Source for the Qurʼan? -- Chapter 12. Bodily Purity in Syrian Christianity and the Qurʼan (Hoover) -- Chapter 13. The Cave of Treasures and the Qurʼan: A Reappraisal (McDowell) -- Index of Qurʼanic Verses -- General Index -- Back Cover