Islam, Christianity and the Realms of the Miraculous

A Comparative Exploration

Ian Richard Netton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781474474511 (ISBN)

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This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration. What are the stories of the miracles? What are the contexts which gave rise to these miracles and allowed them to garner belief and flourish? Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena.
Similarities and differences in content and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions are discerned.

Ian Richard Netton is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author or editor of 22 other books and is an internationally acclaimed authority in the field of Islamic Studies. His particular research interests include Islamic Philosophy and theology, Islamic anthropology, Sufism, and medieval Arab travellers.

Foreword

Abbreviations

1. MIRACLES AND RELIGION

Definitions

The Medieval Mindset: Milieu, Continuity and Contrasts

Christian

Islamic

Narratology

2. FOOD

A Proto-Miracle: Manna from the Desert

The Feeding of the Five Thousand: Christianity

Jesus, the Test and the Table: Islam

The Narrative Arena

3. WATER

A Proto-Miracle: Water from the Rock

Lourdes, Shrines and Healing

Zamzam, Shrines and Healing

The Narrative Arena　　

4. BLOOD

Proto-Miracles: Blood and its Contrastive Christian and Islamic Domains

Bolsena 1263: Host > Blood

The Writing in the Blood: Sufi Blood and Hallajian Passion

The Narrative Arena

5. WOOD AND STONE

A Proto-Miracle: The Ark of Gilgamesh and Noah

Ark of the Covenant: The Virgin in the House

The Angels of the Kacba

The Narrative Arena

6. COSMOLOGY

Proto-Miracles: The Standing of the Sun and the Moon

The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima

The Splitting of the Moon in the Qur'an

The Narrative Arena

7. ENVOI

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Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2020
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	465 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-13	9781474474511 / 9781474474511
Zustand	Neuware