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The Qur’ān and its Biblical Subtext by Gabriel Said Reynolds, 2012. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 308 pp., £28.00, 978-0415-52424-7 (pbk) [MD]

The Qur’ān and its Biblical Subtext by Gabriel Said Reynolds, 2012. Abingdon and New York:... BOOK REVIEWS Book Reviews 99 Book Reviews t he Qur’ān and its b iblical s ubtext by g abriel s aid Reynolds, 2012. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 308 pp., £28.00, 978-0415-52424-7 (pbk) [m D] Vinay Khetia McMaster University, Ontario, Canada DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11136/jqh.1311.01.06 Qur’ānic studies has been one of the most active areas of Islamic Studies with scholars seeking to shed light upon the Qur’ān’s history and its reception. Especially during the past decade, academic presses have published numerous original works dealing with the Qur’ān and its exegesis. This current work by Gabriel Said Reynolds is another timely scholarly contribution as a part of the Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān series. In the introduction, the author clearly places himself in opposition to the school of the eminent historian, William Montgomery Watt (d.2006). For Reynolds, this opposition to Watt and others lies in the fact that for him the key to unlocking the Qur’ān ‘secrets’ does not involve reading the Qur’ān through the prism of Muhammad’s biography (sīra) but rather in exploring the Qur’ān’s literary milieu without necessary recourse to Muhammad’s biography which is largely the product late eighth and ninth century (C.E.) Muslim dogma and thus an entirely unreliable http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies Brill

The Qur’ān and its Biblical Subtext by Gabriel Said Reynolds, 2012. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 308 pp., £28.00, 978-0415-52424-7 (pbk) [MD]

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BOOK REVIEWS Book Reviews 99 Book Reviews t he Qur’ān and its b iblical s ubtext by g abriel s aid Reynolds, 2012. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 308 pp., £28.00, 978-0415-52424-7 (pbk) [m D] Vinay Khetia McMaster University, Ontario, Canada DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11136/jqh.1311.01.06 Qur’ānic studies has been one of the most active areas of Islamic Studies with scholars seeking to shed light upon the Qur’ān’s history and its reception. Especially during the past decade, academic presses have published numerous original works dealing with the Qur’ān and its exegesis. This current work by Gabriel Said Reynolds is another timely scholarly contribution as a part of the Routledge Studies in the Qur’ān series. In the introduction, the author clearly places himself in opposition to the school of the eminent historian, William Montgomery Watt (d.2006). For Reynolds, this opposition to Watt and others lies in the fact that for him the key to unlocking the Qur’ān ‘secrets’ does not involve reading the Qur’ān through the prism of Muhammad’s biography (sīra) but rather in exploring the Qur’ān’s literary milieu without necessary recourse to Muhammad’s biography which is largely the product late eighth and ninth century (C.E.) Muslim dogma and thus an entirely unreliable

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Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies – Brill

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