This essay challenges Stephen Shoemaker’s interpretation of the two descriptions of Paradise in Q 55:46-76 as oral variants of a single tradition later combined by qurʾānic editors. Contra Shoemaker, it argues that the cumulative weight of the [...]
This essay challenges Stephen Shoemaker’s interpretation of the two descriptions of Paradise in Q 55:46-76 as oral variants of a single tradition later combined by qurʾānic editors. Contra Shoemaker, it argues that the cumulative weight of the [...]