An Anthropology of the Qur'an

This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the taw--dic discourses.

Ahmed Achrati holds an LL.B from the University of Oran, Algeria, an LL.M from New York University School of Law, and a Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He continues to do research in anthropology and prehistoric rock art. Currently, he teaches courses on the Qur'an and Modern Society and Prehistoric Rock Art at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in the Washington, DC, area.

Part 1 1. Religion, the Holy and the Sacred: An Anthropological Perspective 2. Al-Qudd-s (The Holy) and Transcendental Écart in the Qur'-n 3 Ontological Distinction of the Holy and the Sacred in the Qur'-n 4. Transcendence and Divine Freedom in the Qur'-n 5 Taw--d, God, the Qur'-n, and Being 6 Al-Qudd-s and Divine Otherness 7 Taw--dic Authorizing Discourses and the Inversion of al-Qudd-s 8 The Qur'-n and the Taw--dic Sublimation of the Sunna 9 The Qur'-n, Müammad, and the Disclosure of the Holy; 10 The Qur'-n, the Sunna, and Authority in Modern Islam Part 2 11 Gender: The Taw--dic Sexual Morality 12 -ILM: The Forgotten Ethics of Islam 13 The Qur'-n and Islamic Art 14 Rib- (Usury): Economic Excess and Excessive Morality