03864nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001700153072001700170072002300187072001500210072001600225100007900241245014200320250001800462264007900480300004400559336002600603337002600629338003600655347002400691505020800715520215500923650002203078650002003100650001503120650002203135650002103157650002603178710003403204773002603238776003603264776003603300776003603336856004603372978-3-031-61800-0DE-He21320251030112614.0cr nn 008mamaa240704s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316180007 a10.1007/978-3-031-61800-02doi 4aBP166-166.94 7aHRHT2bicssc 7aREL0370602bisacsh 7aQRP2thema 7aQRVG2thema1 aEl-Badawi, Emran.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aFemale Divinity in the Qur’anh[electronic resource] :bIn Conversation with the Bible and the Ancient Near East /cby Emran El-Badawi.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXXI, 197 p. 16 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Ancient Tree -- Chapter 3: The Divine Couple -- Chapter 4: Divine Birth -- Chapter 5: Daughters of God? -- Chapter 6: The Rise of Allah -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.  a“This is a marvelous and original piece of scholarship. El-Badawi’s fresh and controversial ideas will make waves among his peers in the academy, and I mean that in a good way. The author shows remarkable awareness of the history, literature, and epigraphy of the region, very wide and deep. He pulls together a variety of sources and moves easily between them. This is a mature work that shows El-Badawi a first-rate scholar at the top of his field.” —David Penchansky, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA This is the first book to examine how pre-Islamic/Late Antique goddesses shaped the Qur’an, including its basic theology and cosmology. Exploring the traces found in the text of cultic veneration to goddesses of Arabia and the Ancient Near East, this book analyses what these traces tell us about female power in late antique Arabia, and how this power changed on the advent of Islam. While recent studies on the Qur’anic God have typically considered the question of divinity separately from gender, this book bridges the gap between these two questions, and is therefore an essential constructive mission. This mission adduces literary and documentary evidence—including recent scholarly revolutions in Syriac literature and Arabian epigraphy—and builds upon the critical insights of preceding studies in conversation with post-biblical and Near Eastern traditions. Emran El-Badawi is Dean of the College of Liberal and Fine Arts at Tarleton State University, where he is also Full Professor of History, Geography and GIS. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, where he also served as Associate Professor and Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies. He is author of Queens and Prophets (Oneworld, 2022); The Qur’an and the Aramaic Gospel Traditions (2013), and co-editor of Communities of the Qur’an (Oneworld, 2019). His current research projects include a book on female power in late antique Arabia, and another on hate speech as a global crisis. He has contributed to Forbes, The Houston Chronicle, and The Christian Science Monitor. 0aIslamxDoctrines. 0aIslamxHistory. 0aReligions.14aIslamic Theology.24aIslamic History.24aComparative Religion.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303161799708iPrinted edition:z978303161801708iPrinted edition:z978303161802440uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61800-0