This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on
www.bloomsburycollections.com.Through extensive textual analysis, this book reveals how many passages of the Qurʾan define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically.
While the Day of Resurrection is a major theme of the Qurʾan, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows how the Qurʾan alludes to death and resurrection in a very metaphoric manner, though physically – for example, rebuilding a desolate town, typically identified as Jerusalem, and bringing the Israelite exiles back. At other times, the Qurʾan speaks of non-believers as spiritually dead, those who live in this world, but are otherwise zombies.
The author presents an innovative theory of interpretation, contextualizing the Qurʾan within Late Antiquity, and traces the Qurʾanic passages back to their Biblical, extra-biblical and rabbinic subtexts and traditions.
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