Introduction: Quråanic Studies and Its Controversies / Gabriel Said Reynolds -- The Quråan in Recent Scholarship: Challenges and Disiderata / Fred M. Donner -- Epigraphy and the Linguistic Background to the Quråan / Robert Hoyland -- Recent Research on the Construction of the Quråan / Gerhard Bowering -- Reconsidering the Authorship of the Quråan: Is the Quråan Partly the Fruit of a Progressive and Collective Work? / Claude Gilliot -- Christian Lore and the Arabic Quråan: the "Companions of the Cave" in Surat al-Kahf and in Syriac Christian Tradition / Sidney Griffith -- The Theological Christian Influence on the Quråan: a Reflection / Samir Khalil Samir -- Mary in the Quråan: a Reexamination of Her Presentation / Suleiman A. Mourad -- The Alexander Legend in the Quråan 18:83-102 / Kevin Van Bladel -- Beyond Single Words: Maida - Shaytan - jibt and taghut. Mechanisms of Transmission into the Ethiopic (Ge-ez) Bible and the Quråanic Text / Manfred Kropp -- Nascent Islam in the Seventh Century Syriac Sources / Abdul-Massih Saadi -- Notes on Medieval and Modern Emendations of the Quråan / Devin J. Stewart -- Syriac in the Quråan: Classical Muslim Theories / Andrew Rippin.