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Ascetic Qur’an and Its Kharijite Readers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 Qur’an’s 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 Qur’an’s engagement with late antique ascetic ideas, notably regarding scriptural reading and recitation. In their reception of the Qur’an, 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 Qur’an into practice.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-10-02
Mått155 x 235 x 32 mm
Vikt841 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTexts and Studies on the Qurʾān
Antal sidor416
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004547971

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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 Qur’an, Islamic asceticism, Islamic religious literature, and Islamic law.

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNote on Translation, Transliteration, and other Formal ConventionsIntroductionPart 1 Ascetic Reading/Recitation in the Qur’an1 Asceticized Arabia2 Competing Recitational Paradigms in the Qur’an3 Ascetic Dimensions of Reading/Recitation in the Meccan Suras4 Internalizing and Enacting God’s Word: Ascetic Striving in Late Meccan and Medinan SurasPart 2 The Kharijites Reading/Reciting the Qur’an5 Kharijite Origins between Myth, History, and Poetry6 Internalization of Scripture and Kharijite Identity Formation7 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qur’an in Early Kharijite Poetry8 Scriptural Reading/Recitation and Enactment of the Qur’an in Sermons of Kharijites and RenunciantsConclusion: Asceticism in the Qur’an and Kharijite CompositionsAppendix 1: A Tentative Classification of Late Antique AsceticismAppendix 2: Select SermonsBibliographyIndex