The Early Qur'an in Mecca
Apocalyptic Expectation at the Dawn of Islam
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 19 February 2026
- ISBN 9781009638524
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages318 pages
- Size 229x152x22 mm
- Weight 572 g
- Language English 799
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Short description:
This book sheds light on the Qur'an's appearance in Mecca and highlights the text's urgent message about the Hour.
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In this study, R. K. Farrin offers a fresh perspective on the emergence of Islam by tracing the structural and thematic development of the Qur'an in Mecca. He analyzes the form and content of the Qur'an at its earliest stage (ca. 609-14 CE), when it grew from a few verses to a scriptural corpus. From quantitative and literary evidence, Farrin argues that a Qur'anic nucleus - carrying a particularly urgent message - most likely formed during this period, to which units were then added as revelation continued in Mecca and Medina (ca. 615-32 CE). His study also situates the emerging Qur'an in the context of late antique Arabia, where monotheism's spread was still resisted by resident pagans. It also draws connections to contemporary Jewish and Christian ideas, especially regarding the anticipated Last Day. Significantly, Farrin's study peels back layers of Islamic history to consider the Qur'an and the environment in which it was first being recited.
'Farrin's The Early Qur'an in Mecca is a work of excellent scholarship written with insight and with the utmost clarity. It draws deftly on a wide range of earlier scholarship, gives ample consideration to the presence of apocalyptic ideas in the Qur'an, and makes the best case I have yet seen for establishing the chronology of Qur'anic surahs on the basis of stylometry, a hypothesis about which I have long been skeptical, but which I now will have to reconsider. This is an important work that deserves the attention of all students of the Qur'an.' Fred M. Donner, Peter B. Ritzma Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern History, The University of Chicago
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Stylometry and the refinement of a Qur'anic timeline; 2. Historical and theological background I; 3. Historical and theological background II; 4. Earliest revelations; 5. Confrontation; 6. Division of humans and Jinn; 7. Awaiting the hour; Conclusion; Appendix A: Thematic summaries; Appendix B: Verse division comparison, Medina I and Kufa; Bibliography; Index of scriptural citations; General index.
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