Religious poetry from the Quranic milieu: Umayya b. Abī l-Ṡalt on the fate of the Thamūd by Sinai, N

“…Unlike most ancient Arabic poetry, the poems attributed to Umayya b. Abī l-Ṡalt treat subjects that are also prominent in the Quran, such as creation, eschatology, and episodes from Biblical history. …”

Key terms of the Qur'an: a critical dictionary by Sinai, N

“…It offers a comprehensive but nonreductionist investigation of the relationship of Qur’anic terms to earlier traditions such as Jewish and Christian literature, pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, and Arabian epigraphy. While the dictionary is primarily engaged in ascertaining what the Qur’an would have meant to its original recipients in late antique Arabia, it makes selective and critical use of later Muslim scholarship alongside an extensive body of secondary research in English, German, and French from the nineteenth century to today.…”