Ascetic Qur’an and Its Kharijite Readers

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