Preface /Andrew Rippin -- Orientation. -- Introducing / Tamara Sonn. -- Discovering / Christopher Buck. -- Contextualizing / Abdullah Saeed -- Text. -- Linguistic structure / Salwa M.S. El-Awa. -- Patterns of address / Rosalind Ward Gwynne. -- Language / Mustansir Mir. -- Poetry and language / Navid Kermani. -- Foreign vocabulary / Michael Carter. -- Structure and the emergence of community / Angelika Neuwirth. -- Sacrality and collection / Aliza Shnizer. -- Written transmission / François Déroche. -- Context : Muhòammad / Herbert Berg. -- Context : °Umar b. al-Khatòtòåab / Avraham Hakim -- Content. -- God / Andrew Rippin. -- Prophets and prophethood / Uri Rubin. -- Moses / Brannon Wheeler. -- Argumentation / Kate Zebiri. -- Knowing and thinking / A.H. Mathias Zahniser. -- Sex, sexuality, and the family / Khaleel Mohammed. -- Jihåad / Reuven Firestone -- Interpretation. -- Hermeneutics : al-Tha°labåi / Walid Saleh. -- Stories of the prophets / Marianna Klar. -- Sòåufism / Alan Godlas. -- Råumåi / Jawid Mojaddedi. -- Twelver Shåi°åi ta®wåil / Diana Steigerwald. -- Ismåa°åilåi ta®wåil / Diana Steigerwald -- Application. -- Exegetical sciences / Jane Dammen McAuliffe. -- Theology / Binyamin Abrahamov. -- Jurisprudence / A. Kevin Reinhart. -- Contemporary ethical issues / Leah Kinberg. -- Narrative literature / Roberto Tottoli. -- Recitation / Anna M. Gade.