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Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'ān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'ān to appear in a Western language.<ref>http://www.brill.nl/encyclopaedia-quran-set-volumes-1-5-plus-index-volume</ref></blockquote>
Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'ān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies.<ref>Publisher site: [http://www.brill.nl/encyclopaedia-quran-set-volumes-1-5-plus-index-volume ''Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an'' at Brill publishers]</ref></blockquote>

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Muzaffar Iqbal, reviewing the Encyclopedia, writes that ''The perspective that emerges... rest on the supposition that the Qur'an is not the actual Word of God... but a human construct, originating orally at a specific time and place and undergoing textual “evolution” like all other oral texts'' and that this differs from the ''entire corpus of Muslim scholarship on the Qur'an [which] is based on the premise that the Qur'an is the Word of God... protected from any corruption... hence, for them, certain questions related to the text of the Qur'an, so often discussed in modern academic scholarship, have never been valid questions'' <ref>{{cite journal |last=Iqbal| |first=Muzaffar| |authorlink=Muzaffar Iqbal |year=2008 |title=The Qurʾān, orientalism and the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān |journal=Journal of Qur'anic Research and Studies |volume=3 |issue=5 |location=Medina, Saudi Arabia |publisher=King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex |url=http://www.cis-ca.org/muzaffar/EQ-Rev.pdf }}</ref>


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[[Muzaffar Iqbal]], reviewing the Encyclopedia, has stated that almost all of its articles expresses [[polemical]] and [[Oriental studies|orientalist]] contentions.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Iqbal| |first=Muzaffar| |authorlink=Muzaffar Iqbal |year=2008 |title=The Qurʾān, orientalism and the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān |journal=Journal of Qur'anic Research and Studies |volume=3 |issue=5 |location=Medina, Saudi Arabia |publisher=King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex |url=http://www.cis-ca.org/muzaffar/EQ-Rev.pdf }}</ref>


==Editions==
==Editions==
* Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe et al., ''Encyclopaedia of Qur'an'' 1st Edition., 5 vols. plus index., Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2001-2006, ISBN 90-04-14743-8
* Edited by [[Jane Dammen McAuliffe]] et al., ''Encyclopaedia of Qur'an'' 1st Edition., 5 vols. plus index., Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2001-2006, ISBN 90-04-14743-8


* Vol. I: A-D (publication year 2001)
* Vol. I: A-D (publication year 2001)
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* Publisher site: [http://www.brill.nl/encyclopaedia-quran-set-volumes-1-5-plus-index-volume ''Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an'' at Brill publishers]
* Publisher site: [http://www.brill.nl/encyclopaedia-quran-set-volumes-1-5-plus-index-volume ''Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an'' at Brill publishers]
* Another encyclopaedia: [http://iequran.com ''Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an'' at IEQ project]
* Another encyclopaedia: [http://iequran.com ''Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an'' at IEQ project]



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The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (EQ) is an academic encyclopedia with articles on the most important themes and subjects of the Qur'an.

The publisher, Brill, describes the encyclopedia as follows:

Drawing upon a rich scholarly heritage, Brill's Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān (EQ) combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'ān. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'ānic studies.[1]

Muzaffar Iqbal, reviewing the Encyclopedia, has stated that almost all of its articles expresses polemical and orientalist contentions.[2]

Editions

  • Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe et al., Encyclopaedia of Qur'an 1st Edition., 5 vols. plus index., Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2001-2006, ISBN 90-04-14743-8
  • Vol. I: A-D (publication year 2001)
  • Vol. II: E-I (2002)
  • Vol. III: J-O (2003)
  • Vol. IV: P-Sh (2004)
  • Vol. V: Si-Z (2006)
  • Index Vol. (2006)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Publisher site: Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an at Brill publishers
  2. ^ Iqbal, Muzaffar (2008). "The Qurʾān, orientalism and the Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān" (PDF). Journal of Qur'anic Research and Studies. 3 (5). Medina, Saudi Arabia: King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |1= and |2= (help)


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