Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an

Nicolai Sinai is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His publications include The Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Introduction (2017) and Rain-Giver, Bone-Breaker, Score-Settler: Allāh in Pre-Quranic Poetry (2019).

• List of Figures and TablesIntroductionNicolai SinaiPart 1 Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʾan1 Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan SurasNicolai Sinai2 Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan CompositionsMarianna Klar3 Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan SurasCecilia Palombo4 Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan SurasNora K. Schmid5 Vocatives in the Qurʾan and the Framing of Prophetic ProclamationsDevin J. StewartPart 2 Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes6 The Qibla of Muhammad’s Community ReconsideredAngelika Neuwirth7 Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʾan?Andrew J. O’Connor8 Law in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʾanic ReiterationHolger ZellentinPart 3 Studies of Individual Suras9 The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3)Neal Robinson10 A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4)Joseph E. Lowry11 Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl)Karen Bauer12 Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʾan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66Gabriel S. Reynolds13 Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural AnalysisSaqib HussainIndex