| Description |
x, 336 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Routledge/SOAS series on contemporary politics and culture in the Middle East |
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Routledge/SOAS contemporary politics and culture in the Middle East series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-325) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Images and metaphors in the introductory sections of the Makkan sūras / Angelika Neuwirth -- The quranic presentation of the Joseph story: naturalistic or formulaic language? / A.H. Johns -- Context and internal relationships: keys to quranic exegesis / M.A.S. Abdel Haleem -- Tafsīr from Ṭabarī to Ibn Kathīr: problems in the description of a genre, illustrated with reference to the story of Abraham / Norman Calder -- Exegesis and Ḥadīth: the case of the seven Mathānī / Uri Rubin -- An analytical survey of al-Ṭabarī's exegesis of the cultural symbolic construct of fitna / Abdulkader Tayob -- Akhbārī Shīʻī approaches to tafsīr / B. Todd Lawson -- The sūra as a unity: a twentieth century development in Qurʼān exegesis / Mustansir Mir -- Muḥammad ʻIzzat Darwaza's principles of modern exegesis: a contribution toward quranic hermeneutics / Ismail K. Poonawala -- Interpreting the Bible through the Qurʼān / Andrew Rippin -- Two citations of the Qurʼān in 'historical' sources for early Islam / G.R. Hawting -- Law and exegesis: the penalty for adultery in Islam / John Burton -- The impact of the Qurʼān on the epistolography of ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd / Wadād al-Qāḍī. |
| Summary |
"The past twenty years have witnessed a renewed academic interest in the Qur'an and its interpretation, focusing on such questions as how the text of the Qur'an achieved its existing form and its status for Muslims as scripture, its role in Islamic culture, and the various methods and approaches which Muslims have used when attempting to elucidate the meaning of their sacred text. In recent years, however, there have been attempts to widen the field of discussion from the Muslim tradition generally used for interpretation, and to experiment with approaches which develop insights gained from historical, biblical, literary critical and other studies. The result is that a variety of approaches to the Qur'an and the Muslim exegetical tradition are currently available. Approaches to the Qur'an consists of thirteen essays by leading scholars, both Muslim and non-Muslim, in the fields of qur'anic studies and Islamic studies. Taken together, they offer a sample of the aims, methods and topics of enquiry now being pursued. Each study has a full critical apparatus, and a consolidated bibliography is included which will be of great value to students and specialists." --Publisher. |
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Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
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Qurʼan -- Hermeneutics.
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Qurʼan -- History.
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Qur'an -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History.
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Qur'an -- Hermeneutics.
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Qurʼan. (OCoLC)fst01842877
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Hermeneutics. (OCoLC)fst00955492
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Qurʼan (DE-588)4032444-8
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Aufsatzsammlung (DE-588)4143413-4
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Koran.
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Tafsīr.
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Qurʼan.
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| Indexed Term |
Islam Scriptures |
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Hawting, G. R. (Gerald R.), 1944-
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Shareef, Abdul-Kader A.
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| ISBN |
0415057558 |
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9780415057554 |
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9780415862073 |
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0415862078 |
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