Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qurʾān as a Literary Text, by Angelika Neuwirth

(First two paragraphs) Over the last decades, Professor Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität, Berlin) has become one of the leading figures of Qurʾānic studies and the Corpus Coranicum project led by her is a major attempt to develop the field. Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community collects together twelve articles published by Neuwirth in 1991-2009, adding two new articles that do not seem to have been published elsewhere, as well as an Introduction. Many of the articles have been revised for the new publication and several appear here for the first time in English.