Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies (ICIIS) in Conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Quran and Hadith Studies (ICONQUHAS)

Research Article

Pre-Canonical Reading: An Analysis to the Neuwirth’s Chronological Order of Qur’ān

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.7-11-2019.2294545,
        author={Muhammad Asy'war Saleh and Hamka  Hasan and Rifqoh  Qudsiah},
        title={Pre-Canonical Reading: An Analysis to the Neuwirth’s Chronological Order of Qur’ān },
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies (ICIIS) in Conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Quran and Hadith Studies (ICONQUHAS)},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICIIS},
        year={2020},
        month={5},
        keywords={late antiquity canonization meccan medinan abraham},
        doi={10.4108/eai.7-11-2019.2294545}
    }
    
  • Muhammad Asy'war Saleh
    Hamka Hasan
    Rifqoh Qudsiah
    Year: 2020
    Pre-Canonical Reading: An Analysis to the Neuwirth’s Chronological Order of Qur’ān
    ICIIS
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.7-11-2019.2294545
Muhammad Asy'war Saleh1,*, Hamka Hasan2, Rifqoh Qudsiah1
  • 1: UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Faculty of Ushuluddin
  • 2: UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Islamic Studies, Department
*Contact email: asywar.saleh14@mhs.uinjkt.ac.id

Abstract

This article aims to scrutinize about Neuwirth's assumptions in showing the similarity of the Qur'anic message in late antiquity sources. It is describing the chronological order of the surah and applying the intertextual method to the Qur’ān, especially the text that was spoken by the proclaimer (Prophet). By using new chronological order, Neuwirth makes the Qur’ān which was initially a text-referential then involved in the development of the community, that is, the hearers. In Abraham case, This research found that Abraham story was divided from the expulsion of his hometown, the sacrifice, the construction of the Ka‘ba to an emergence of a new community, millah ibrāhīm, provides a new perspective in understanding the chronology of the Qur’ān. This intertextual process also discovered the Qur’ān as a text that is not just a text that has been fixed canonized, but rather a text which involves the development of a community.