04223nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-61800-0 DE-He213 20251030112614.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240704s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031618000 978-3-031-61800-0 10.1007/978-3-031-61800-0 doi BP166-166.94 HRHT bicssc REL037060 bisacsh QRP thema QRVG thema El-Badawi, Emran. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80041 Female Divinity in the Qur’an [electronic resource] : In Conversation with the Bible and the Ancient Near East / by Emran El-Badawi. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXI, 197 p. 16 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 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. “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. Islam Doctrines. 72189 Islam History. 71056 Religions. 70064 Islamic Theology. 72191 Islamic History. 71058 Comparative Religion. 74036 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031617997 Printed edition: 9783031618017 Printed edition: 9783031618024 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61800-0 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 61349 61349