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Creation and Contemplation: The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background

Posted By: roxul
Date: 25 Jul 2023 11:55:34
Creation and Contemplation: The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background

Julien Decharneux, "Creation and Contemplation: The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background "
English | ISBN: 3110794012 | 2023 | 350 pages | EPUB | 1514 KB

In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur'ān and various cosmological traditions of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Syriac Christianity.
The first part of the book studies how, in exhorting its audience to contemplate the world, the Qur'ān carries on a tradition of natural contemplation that had developed throughout Late Antiquity in the Christian world. In this regard, the analysis suggests particularly striking connections with the mystical and ascetic literature of the Church of the East, which was in effervescence at the time of the emergence of Islam.
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