Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins : a review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an : a historical-critical study (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022)

Article Article scientifique Article Scepticism as method in the study of Quranic origins : a review article of Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Qur’an : a historical-critical study (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022) eng 2025-04-11 2025-10 author Fudge Bruce 0009-0000-0129-3130 787418 moyens communs de mesl1 (SLAC1) 477-492 10.1017/s0041977x25000242 0041-977X This paper presents a review article of Creating the Qur’an by Stephen J. Shoemaker, a monograph that is highly critical of Quranic studies as practised in the Western academy today, arguing, among other things, that Islamic studies scholars need to learn from scholarship in other fields, namely history of religions and biblical studies, and that the Quran as we know it today, in both form and content, is a product of the early eighth century, and was propagated by the Umayyad caliph ʿAbd al-Malik. The article discusses these claims and puts them in the context of methodological issues concerning the study of early Islam and the origins of the Quran in particular. Dewey 480 86 Département de langues et des littératures méditerranéennes, slaves, et orientales 3D false 681 Unité d'arabe Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 88 3 3ab1d3ef-9113-41d3-b923-60722f4c2ab7 Article (Published version) Public Article_scientifique_from_crossref.pdf 462020 application/pdf CC BY-4.0 da106ddbe30d4220d9f26dceb279cce60cd15133f64ea59dcba4a1753552ffd8 openAccess Faculté des lettres / Département de langues et des littératures méditerranéennes, slaves, et orientales

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