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1 online resource (350 pages) |
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RoutledgeCurzon/SOAS series on Politics and Culture in the Middle East |
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RoutledgeCurzon/SOAS series on Politics and Culture in the Middle East
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| Contents |
Cover; Approaches to the Qur'ān; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Part I Aspects of the style and content of the Qur'ān; 1 Images and metaphors in the introductory sections of the Makkan sūras; 2 The Quranic presentation of the Joseph story: Naturalistic or formulaic language?; 3 Context and internal relationships: keys to quranic exegesis: A study of Sūrat al-Rahmān (Qur'ān chapter 55); Part II Aspects of the traditional and modern exegesis of the Qur'ān |
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4 Tafsīr from Tabarī to Ibn Kathīr: Problems in the description of a genre, illustrated with reference to the story of Abraham5 Exegesis and Hadīth: The case of the seven Mathānī; 6 An analytical survey of al-Tabarī's exegesis of the cultural symbolic construct of fitna; 7 Akhbārī Shī'ī approaches to tafsīr; 8 The sūra as a unity: A twentieth century development in Qur'ān exegesis; 9 Muhammad 'Izzat Darwaza's principles of modern exegesis: A contribution toward quranic hermeneutics; Part III The Qur'ān and its exegesis in a wider context; 10 Interpreting the Bible through the Qur'ān |
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11 Two citations of the Qur'ān in 'historical' sources for early Islam12 Law and exegesis: The penalty for adultery in Islam; 13 The impact of the Qur'ān on the epistolography of 'Abd al-Hamīd; Bibliography; Index; Index of Quranic references |
| Summary |
In recent years, the study of the Qur'an and its interpretation has expanded to incorporate insights gained from historical, biblical, literary and critical studies. 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 the book includes a consolidate |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Koran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History
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Koran -- Hermeneutics
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Qurʼan fast |
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Religious thought.
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Hermeneutics
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Religious thought
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203988848 |
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0203988841 |
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