Angelika Neuwirth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1402833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelika Neuwirth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelika |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuwirth |
| SIGNATURE | NEUWIRTH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Am Neuen Markt 8, D-14467 Potsdam Deutschland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 2.1: Early Middle Meccan Suras: The New Elect
The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy
This six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure, and semantic message of each of the 114 Qur'anic suras. It brings together the fruits of the past hundred years of modern scholarship and provides access to the aesthetic, theological, linguistic, and semantic background required to appreciate the unique novelty, force, and historical position of the Qur'an. Contextua…
The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy
Die koranische Verkündigung – eine hermeneutische Revolution in der Spätantike
Titelseiten
Beyond Reception History: The Qur'anic Intervention into the Late Antique Discourse about the Origin of Evil
The article advocates a new approach to the Qur'an: To look at the text as a transcript of the earliest community's intervention into major debates of its time. Rather than earlier textual traditions ("reception history"), particular burning theological questions that were en vogue in the epistemic space of Late Antiquity are identified as the essential trigger of particular Qur'anic proclamations. Thus, the new-Late Antique-perception of evil (e…
The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage
The Qurʾan and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage , the culminating summary of the work of the most prominent German scholar of the Qurʾan, provides an original introduction to the Qurʾan against the background of the plural religious and literary cultures of Late Antiquity. In order to bridge the polarity between understandings of the Qurʾan in the Islamic world and the West, the work offers a critical introduction to the study of the Qurʾan with…
Wie entsteht eine Schrift in der Forschung und in der Geschichte?: Die Hebräische Bibel und der Koran
In welchem Verhältnis steht der Koran zur biblischen Tradition? Ist er Teil der für das spätere Europa formativen spätantiken Mittelmeerkultur, oder dominiert in seiner Botschaft »das Eigene«, die lokale, kämpferische Kultur Arabiens? Seine Entstehungsgeschichte zeigt, dass er wie die Mischna und das Neue Testament - semantisch Teil der biblischen Tradition ist. Ist er es aber auch hermeneutisch? »Der Koran« ist ja nicht nur historisches Faktum, …
Locating the Qurʾan and Early Islam in the ‘Epistemic Space’ of Late Antiquity: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an
Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge or extra-textual circumstances. Qurʾanic speech oscillates between literal and ‘allegorical’ expression. Among the last mentioned, typology, hitherto widely neglected—although perhaps the most representative textual practice in the late antique cultu…
Denkraum Spätantike
Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran
Koranforschung - eine politische Philologie?: Bibel, Koran und Islamentstehung im Spiegel spätantiker Textpolitik und moderner Philologie
In this book, renowned Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth presents key features of her course on “The Koran as a Text of Late Antiquity.” The work transcends polarizing analyses and well-intentioned but superficial attempts to show commonalities, presenting instead the unique elements of the Koran while showing how it emerges from a common cultural space. Her analysis is an exemplary combination of philological precision and cultural sensitivity.
The Qurʾān in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu
Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'ān in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur’an’s political, economic, …
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
The House Of Abraham And The House Of Amram: Genealogy, Patriarchal Authority, And Exegetical Professionalism
Muslim ritual prayer suggests that the Islamic faith relies predominantly on patriarchal tradition. It singles out one particular prophetic genealogy as the model for the House of the Prophet Muhammad - namely, the House of Abraham, Al Ibrahim: This chapter focuses on a controversy kindled in Medina, between the time-honored heirs to the Abrahamic tradition, the Medinan Jews, and the community. It provides a brief summary of Abraham's Qurʾāic car…
Two Views of History and Human Future: Qur'anic and Biblical Renderings of Divine Promises
Though the Qur'an refers to the Psalms as a scriptural corpus, al-zabūr, the Qur'anic relationship with the Psalms is – unlike that with the Torah or the Gospel – not explicitly described in terms of an affirming re-collection of that scripture. In the Qur'an ‘the Psalms’ as a scriptural authority play a rather marginal role. Yet individual psalm texts are strikingly present in the Qur'an. Not only are they reflected in numerous Qur'anic metaphor…
Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren: Die literarische Form des Koran - ein Zeugnis seiner Historizität?
The Qur'an is an orally composed poetical text which Muslims have always known mainly in the form of oral recitation. Western scholarship however has hardly ever read it as literature, on account of the inaccessibility of its structure, and instead has used it mainly to mine theological or legislative statements. Angelika Neuwirth brings order to this supposed chaos by demonstrating meaningful compositional structures for the Makkan suras of the …
Orientalism in Oriental Studies? Qur'anic Studies as a Case in Point
Ghazal as World Literature II: From a Literary Genre to a Great Tradition
Abstracts of Articles (in English)
Negotiating Justice: A Pre–Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts 1 (Part II)
With the evaluation of the polythematic sūra, i.e. with the transition of the Qur'an from an oral to a written and thus Scripture-orientated text, a complex structure for the primordial drama emerges. The divine election of man as God's closest creature and the forecast of an elected community is framed in the story of a bargain contracted between God and Iblīs in pre-existence which entails for Iblīs the freedom to test man – with the exception …
Negotiating Justice: A Pre-Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts 1 (Part I)
With the evaluation of the polythematic sūra, i.e. with the transition of the Qur'an from an oral to a written and thus Scripture-orientated text, a complex structure for the primordial drama emerges. The divine election of man as God's closest creature and the forecast of an elected community is framed in the story of a bargain contracted between God and Iblīs in pre-existence which entails for Iblīs the freedom to test man – with the exception …
Du Texte de Récitation au Canon en Passant par la Liturgie
L’original a paru sous le titre “Vom Rezitationstext über die Liturgie zum Kanon. Zu Entstehung und Wiederau ösung der Surenkomposition im Verlauf der Entwicklung eines islamischen Kultus” dans Wild, Stefan (éd.), The Qur "ˆ n as text , Leiden 1996, pp. 69-105. 1 John Wansbrough, Quranic Studies. Sources and methods of scriptual interpretation. Oxford 1977 Récension: van Ess, Josef in BiOr 35 (1978) 349-53, Ullendorf in: BSOAS 40 (1977) 609-612, …
Face of God—Face of Man: The Significance of the Direction of Prayer in Islam
Der Peptimist oder Von den seltsamen Vorfallen um das Verschwinden Saids des Glucklosen. Roman aus Palastina
Neue Materialien Zur Arabischen Tradition Der Beiden Ersten Metaphysik-Bücher
Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren
Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren
Quranic Studies. Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation
Der Peptimist oder Von den seltsamen Vorfallen um das Verschwinden Saids des Glucklosen. Roman aus Palastina
Face of God—Face of Man: The Significance of the Direction of Prayer in Islam
Abstracts of Articles (in English)
Negotiating Justice: A Pre–Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts 1 (Part II)
With the evaluation of the polythematic sūra, i.e. with the transition of the Qur'an from an oral to a written and thus Scripture-orientated text, a complex structure for the primordial drama emerges. The divine election of man as God's closest creature and the forecast of an elected community is framed in the story of a bargain contracted between God and Iblīs in pre-existence which entails for Iblīs the freedom to test man – with the exception …
Negotiating Justice: A Pre-Canonical Reading of the Qur'anic Creation Accounts 1 (Part I)
With the evaluation of the polythematic sūra, i.e. with the transition of the Qur'an from an oral to a written and thus Scripture-orientated text, a complex structure for the primordial drama emerges. The divine election of man as God's closest creature and the forecast of an elected community is framed in the story of a bargain contracted between God and Iblīs in pre-existence which entails for Iblīs the freedom to test man – with the exception …
Du Texte de Récitation au Canon en Passant par la Liturgie
L’original a paru sous le titre “Vom Rezitationstext über die Liturgie zum Kanon. Zu Entstehung und Wiederau ösung der Surenkomposition im Verlauf der Entwicklung eines islamischen Kultus” dans Wild, Stefan (éd.), The Qur "ˆ n as text , Leiden 1996, pp. 69-105. 1 John Wansbrough, Quranic Studies. Sources and methods of scriptual interpretation. Oxford 1977 Récension: van Ess, Josef in BiOr 35 (1978) 349-53, Ullendorf in: BSOAS 40 (1977) 609-612, …
Ghazal as World Literature II: From a Literary Genre to a Great Tradition
Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren: Die literarische Form des Koran - ein Zeugnis seiner Historizität?
The Qur'an is an orally composed poetical text which Muslims have always known mainly in the form of oral recitation. Western scholarship however has hardly ever read it as literature, on account of the inaccessibility of its structure, and instead has used it mainly to mine theological or legislative statements. Angelika Neuwirth brings order to this supposed chaos by demonstrating meaningful compositional structures for the Makkan suras of the …
Orientalism in Oriental Studies? Qur'anic Studies as a Case in Point
Two Views of History and Human Future: Qur'anic and Biblical Renderings of Divine Promises
Though the Qur'an refers to the Psalms as a scriptural corpus, al-zabūr, the Qur'anic relationship with the Psalms is – unlike that with the Torah or the Gospel – not explicitly described in terms of an affirming re-collection of that scripture. In the Qur'an ‘the Psalms’ as a scriptural authority play a rather marginal role. Yet individual psalm texts are strikingly present in the Qur'an. Not only are they reflected in numerous Qur'anic metaphor…
'Ethical Turn'?: Geisteswissenschaften in neuer Verantwortung
The House Of Abraham And The House Of Amram: Genealogy, Patriarchal Authority, And Exegetical Professionalism
Muslim ritual prayer suggests that the Islamic faith relies predominantly on patriarchal tradition. It singles out one particular prophetic genealogy as the model for the House of the Prophet Muhammad - namely, the House of Abraham, Al Ibrahim: This chapter focuses on a controversy kindled in Medina, between the time-honored heirs to the Abrahamic tradition, the Medinan Jews, and the community. It provides a brief summary of Abraham's Qurʾāic car…
The Qurʾān in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations into the Qurʾānic Milieu
Although recent scholarship has increasingly situated the Qur'ān in the historical context of Late Antiquity, such a perspective is only rarely accompanied by the kind of microstructural literary analysis routinely applied to the Bible. The present volume seeks to redress this lack of contact between literary and historical studies. Contributions to the first part of the volume address various general aspects of the Qur’an’s political, economic, …
Koranforschung - eine politische Philologie?: Bibel, Koran und Islamentstehung im Spiegel spätantiker Textpolitik und moderner Philologie
In this book, renowned Islamic scholar Angelika Neuwirth presents key features of her course on “The Koran as a Text of Late Antiquity.” The work transcends polarizing analyses and well-intentioned but superficial attempts to show commonalities, presenting instead the unique elements of the Koran while showing how it emerges from a common cultural space. Her analysis is an exemplary combination of philological precision and cultural sensitivity.
Denkraum Spätantike
Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran
Wie entsteht eine Schrift in der Forschung und in der Geschichte?: Die Hebräische Bibel und der Koran
In welchem Verhältnis steht der Koran zur biblischen Tradition? Ist er Teil der für das spätere Europa formativen spätantiken Mittelmeerkultur, oder dominiert in seiner Botschaft »das Eigene«, die lokale, kämpferische Kultur Arabiens? Seine Entstehungsgeschichte zeigt, dass er wie die Mischna und das Neue Testament - semantisch Teil der biblischen Tradition ist. Ist er es aber auch hermeneutisch? »Der Koran« ist ja nicht nur historisches Faktum, …
Locating the Qurʾan and Early Islam in the ‘Epistemic Space’ of Late Antiquity: Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an
Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge or extra-textual circumstances. Qurʾanic speech oscillates between literal and ‘allegorical’ expression. Among the last mentioned, typology, hitherto widely neglected—although perhaps the most representative textual practice in the late antique cultu…
The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage
The Qurʾan and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage , the culminating summary of the work of the most prominent German scholar of the Qurʾan, provides an original introduction to the Qurʾan against the background of the plural religious and literary cultures of Late Antiquity. In order to bridge the polarity between understandings of the Qurʾan in the Islamic world and the West, the work offers a critical introduction to the study of the Qurʾan with…
Beyond Reception History: The Qur'anic Intervention into the Late Antique Discourse about the Origin of Evil
The article advocates a new approach to the Qur'an: To look at the text as a transcript of the earliest community's intervention into major debates of its time. Rather than earlier textual traditions ("reception history"), particular burning theological questions that were en vogue in the epistemic space of Late Antiquity are identified as the essential trigger of particular Qur'anic proclamations. Thus, the new-Late Antique-perception of evil (e…
The Qur'an: Text and Commentary, Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras: Poetic Prophecy
This six-volume commentary, published originally in Germany, offers a historical and philological analysis of the form, structure, and semantic message of each of the 114 Qur'anic suras. It brings together the fruits of the past hundred years of modern scholarship and provides access to the aesthetic, theological, linguistic, and semantic background required to appreciate the unique novelty, force, and historical position of the Qur'an. Contextua…
Philosophy (18 works) · Art (16 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (14 works) · Islamic Studies and History (13 works) · History (12 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Islam (8 works) · Theology (8 works)