The Qur?an as a Classic: Early Arabic Christian and Muslim Exegesis of the Qur?an in the Interreligious Milieu, Eighth-Tenth Centuries CE

This volume is a study in the history of the reception of the Qurʾān in the early Islamic centuries. It aims at taking scholarship beyond attempts at situating early qurʾānic exegesis within the confines of magisterial classical Tafsīr, and offers a systematic investigation of the early interpretations of select qurʾānic passages against the backdrop of the interreligious milieu of the growing Islamic Empire.

By incorporating writings on the Qurʾān across different genres, not only by Musl...