Brill Academic Publishers

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe

The Qur'an is the primary religious text for one-sixth of the world's population. Understood by Muslims to contain God's own words, it has been an object of reverence and of intense study for centuries. The thousands of volumes that Muslim scholars have devoted to qur'anic interpretation and to the linguistic, rhetorical and narrative analysis of the text are sufficient to create entire libraries of qur'anic studies.

Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language.

Cross-referencing and indices
Frequent cross-references will draw readers to related entries and each article will conclude with a citation of relevant bibliography. The final volume of the EQ will contain indices of transliterated terms, of qur'anic references and of the authors and exegetes cited in the entries and essays. It will also include a synoptic outline of the full contents of the EQ.

Fully international work
The EQ is a fully international work supported by an international board of advisors. Scholars from many nations have written articles for the encyclopaedia.

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Volume One (A-D) - 2001

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Volume Two (E-I) - 2002

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Volume Three (J-O) - 2003

Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
Volume Four (P-Sh) - 2005

ISBN 90 04 12355 5
Hardback (xxiv, 638 pp., 30 illus.)
List price: EUR 242
Price for subscribers to the series: EUR 218

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