TY - BOOK AU - Graham,William A. TI - Islamic and comparative religious studies: : selected writings T2 - Ashgate contemporary thinkers on religion. Collected works SN - 9781409400257 (hardback) AV - BP25 PY - 2010/// CY - Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. PB - Ashgate KW - Qur'an KW - Tafsir KW - Comparative religion (Islam) KW - Collected works KW - icsi KW - Religions KW - Comparative studies KW - Islam KW - Relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; History and interpretation of Islamic religion: Traditionalism in Islam: an essay in interpretation -- Concepts of revelation in early Islam -- The divine saying as problem -- Transcendence in Islam -- Islam in the mirror of ritual -- The Qur'an as scripture -- "The winds to herald his mercy": nature as token of God's sovereignty and grace in the Qurʼān -- The earliest meaning of "Qurʼān" -- Qurʼān as spoken word: an Islamic contribution to the understanding of scripture -- "Those who study and teach the Qurʼān" -- Scripture and the Qurʼān -- Scripture in the history of religion: Scripture as spoken word -- The indian paradigm for scriptural orality -- God's word in the desert: Pachomian scriptural practice -- Reflections on comparative study in religion: "scripture" as case in point -- William A. Graham: bibliography ER -