Interpreting the Qurʾān with the Bible (Tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi-l-Kitāb)

R. Michael McCoy III, DPhil. (2021), University of Oxford, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He has published various articles on the reception of the Arabic Bible in tafsir literature and quranic exegesis, including a recent contribution to Georges Tamer’s (ed.) The Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics (forthcoming).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Introduction1 Methodology2 Reading Someone Else’s Kitāb3 Ibn Barraǧān: Life and Career4 Al-Biqāʿī: Life and Career2 An Historical Survey of the Bible in Muslim Tradition1 Taḥrīf al-maʿnā and Taḥrīf al-naṣṣ2 Biblical Quotation in the Muslim Tradition3 Conclusion3 Identifying the Arabic Versions of the Bible Used by Ibn Barraǧān and al-Biqāʿī: A Comparative Analysis1 The Torah Manuscripts2 The Gospel Manuscripts3 The Diatessaron Manuscripts for Ibn Barraǧān and al-Biqāʿī4 A Verse-by-Verse Analysis of Arabic Bible Manuscripts and Biblical Quotations in the Tafsīrs of Ibn Barraǧān and al-Biqāʿī4 The Scriptural Hermeneutics of Ibn Barraǧān and al-Biqāʿī1 Al-Biqāʿī’s Defense of the Bible: The Aqwāl2 Reception History of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q3:7)3 Ibn Barraǧān’s and al-Biqāʿī’s Scriptural Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān and Bible4 Conclusion5 Adam in the Gardens of Paradise: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi-l-Kitāb in Ibn Barraǧān’s and al-Biqāʿī’s Exegesis of Genesis 1–31 Adam’s Garden Interpreted2 The Garden Narrative in Ibn Barraǧān’s Tafsīr3 The Garden Narrative in al-Biqāʿī’s Tafsīr4 Conclusion6 The Parable of Muḥammad’s Vineyard: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi-l-Kitāb in Ibn Barraǧān’s and al-Biqāʿī’s Exegesis of Matthew 19–201 Ibn Qutaybah’s Matthean Quotations2 Ibn Barraǧān’s and al-Biqāʿī’s use of the Inǧīl3 The Parable of Muḥammad’s Vineyard in Ibn Barraǧān’s Tafsīr: Surahs al-Nisāʾ (Q4:85–7) and al-Ḥadīd (Q57:26–9)4 The Parable of Muḥammad’s Vineyard in al-Biqāʿī’s Tafsīr: Sūrat al-Aʿrāf (Q7:157)5 Conclusion7 Conclusion1 Contexts for Biblical Engagement2 The Interpretive Tradition3 Arabic Versions of the Bible4 Scriptural Hermeneutics5 Case Studies6 Avenues for Future ResearchAppendix I Table of the Arabic Bible Quotations (Genesis 3:1–7 & Matthew 19:30–20:9) from the Tafsīr of Ibn Barraǧān and the Tafsīr of al-BiqāʿīAppendix II Table of the Arabic Bible Quotations (Genesis 3:1–7 & Matthew 19:30–20:9) from the Manuscripts Chosen for Comparison with Ibn Barraǧān and al-BiqāʿīBibliographyIndex of Names and SubjectsIndex of Bible ReferencesIndex of Qurʾān References