Table of Contents

I. IMAGINING ARABIA; II. THE QUR'AN AND ITS INTERPRETATION; III. THE ORAL TRADITION

About the Author

Reuven Firestone is Professor of Judaism and Islam and Director of the Graduate School of Judaic Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Reviews

"Reuven Firestone has produced a book that should have been produced a long ago"--Journal of Near Eastern Studies
"In this book, Firestone had presented an attractive thsis which very much deserves to be read and debated by all who are interested in the subject."-- The Muslim World
"Firestone has done an admirable thing: he has written a brief, readable, carefully delineated, and scholarly study of a concept that is often bandied about in discussions of Islamic thought without reference to historical development or context."-- Journal of Near Eastern Studies