TY - BOOK AU - Graham,William A. TI - Islamic and comparative religious studies: selected writings T2 - Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion SN - 9781409400257 (hardcover : alk. paper) U1 - 297.2809 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Qurʼan KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Islam KW - Relations KW - Religions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-304) and index; History and interpretation of Islamic religion: Traditionalism in Islam: an essay in interpretation -- Concepts of revelation in early Islam -- The divine saying as problem -- Transcendence in Islam -- Islam in the mirror of ritual -- The Qur'an as scripture -- "The winds to herald his mercy": nature as token of God's sovereignty and grace in the Qurʼān -- The earliest meaning of "Qurʼān" -- Qurʼān as spoken word: an Islamic contribution to the understanding of scripture -- "Those who study and teach the Qurʼān" -- Scripture and the Qurʼān -- Scripture in the history of religion: Scripture as spoken word -- The indian paradigm for scriptural orality -- God's word in the desert: Pachomian scriptural practice -- Reflections on comparative study in religion: "scripture" as case in point -- William A. Graham: bibliography ER -