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Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic
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Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis Hardcover - 1990

by Reuven Firestone


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Scholars have long pointed to the great affinity between stories found in the Bible and the Qur'an, yet no explanation has been proposed that satisfactorily explains the odd combination of incredible likeness and unique divergence. Firestone provides a refreshing, new approach to scriptural issues of textuality, exegesis, and the origins and use of legend. This book clearly presents the full range of Islamic legends from the Qur'an and early Islamic exegesis about Abraham's journeys and adventures in the Land of Canaan and Arabia, many of them available for the first time in English translation. The author examines this broad sample of Islamic legends in relation to those found in Jewish, Christian, and pre-Islamic Arabian communities, and postulates an evolutionary journey of the literature. He presents a thorough textual analysis of the material and proposes a model for understanding early Islamic narrative based in literary theory, approaches to comparative religion, and the history of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic Middle East.

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  • Title Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis
  • Author Reuven Firestone
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 265
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 1990
  • ISBN 9780791403310 / 0791403319
  • Reading level 1550
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90009661
  • Dewey Decimal Code 297.12

About the author

Reuven Firestone is Assistant Professor of Hebrew language and literature in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literature at Boston University.

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Journeys in Holy Lands: The Evolution of the Abraham-Ishmael Legends in Islamic Exegesis

by Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam and Director of the Graduate School of Judaic Studies Reuven

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