Book Review, 129 

The Qur'an's Self-Image: Books, Writing 

and Authority in Muslim Scripture 

Daniel A. Madigan 
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 272 pages. 

This is a well-researched and carefully thought out book on the highly com­
plex issue of the Qur' an 's self-referential terms to its own status as Scripture. 

Particularly illuminating are the author, Daniel Madigan's, clear and pr<r 

found engagements with the semantic content of key Qur'anic words like