Qur'an as Text

This book contains the updated papers of an international symposium "e;The Qur'an as Text"e; which was held at the University of Bonn in November 1993. This collection intends to break away from the 19th-century paradigm of "e;influences"e;, which seems largely exhausted but still dominates Qur'anic studies. Instead, this collection focuses on the literary, the intertextual and the receptional aspects of the Qur'anic text. A new approach to the holy book of Islam in the light of modern hermeneutics which is based on modern methods of literary history, text-linguistics, and aesthetics can open the door for a new and more adequate understanding of the Qur'an, its role for Islamic religion, and its unique place in the history of world religions today.