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The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage

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Quran

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Angelika Neuwirth's literary-historical synthesis for the Quran's engagement with Late Antique religious discourse; shared context and intertextuality are not reducible to undifferentiated 'copying.'

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In Islam, the Quran is the central scripture and a living text of recitation, study, worship, and interpretation.

The Quran belongs in the map as a major Abrahamic source page, not as a polemical battleground. It should be handled through source separation: Quranic text, recitation, manuscript evidence, tafsir, hadith, sira, and later folklore are related but not interchangeable.
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The represented academic fields examine Quranic literary form, chronology, manuscripts, textual documentation, and Late Antique context; the catalog does not cover every field of Islamic reception.

The Quran belongs in the map as a major Abrahamic source page, not as a polemical battleground. It should be handled through source separation: Quranic text, recitation, manuscript evidence, tafsir, hadith, sira, and later folklore are related but not interchangeable.
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The Quran engages biblical and post-biblical traditions in a Late Antique religious environment; direct dependence requires source-specific analysis rather than generic 'copying' language.

Answer / theory: The Quran engages Biblical and post-Biblical traditions in a Late Antique religious environment, but simple copying language is too crude. What supports it: Shared figures and story worlds. What is weak or disputed: Direct dependence claims require specific source analysis. Evidence level: Mixed Evidence.
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The Quran presents earlier religious figures and narratives within its own discourse; direct-dependence claims require specific comparative evidence.

Answer / theory: It preserves Quranic versions of earlier figures and traditions, not simple copies of biblical books. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for shared figures; Mixed Evidence for transmission details.
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