How and when did 紮喝娶a紳ic exegesis (喧硃款莽蘋娶) emerge as a literary genre of its own? To what extent was it influenced by other disciplines, such as law, theology or philosophy? How did different political or theological agendas shape works of 喧硃款莽蘋娶, and in what ways did the genre develop over time and in different regions? These are some of the major questions which this book seeks to address.
This book constitutes the first comprehensive attempt at describing the genre of 紮喝娶a紳ic exegesis in its broader intellectual context. Its aim is to provide a framework for understanding the boundaries of 喧硃款莽蘋娶 and its interaction with other disciplines of learning, as well as the subgenres and internal divisions within the genre. It discusses the emergence of the genre in the beginnings of Islamic history and the changes and potential ruptures it has experienced in later times, the role of hadith, law, language, philosophy, theology and political ideology for the interpretive process, the regional dimension, the influx of modernist ideas and the process of writing 喧硃款莽蘋娶 in languages other than Arabic.
Among the fifteen authors who have contributed to the volume are leading scholars in the field as well as young researchers, which makes for a unique and fresh perspective on a field that has long been reduced to its instrumental value for understanding the 紮喝娶a紳Muslims believe that the Holy 紮喝娶a紳 contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More. Covering the time from the formation of 紮喝娶a紳ic exegesis until the present, it is a valuable resource for advanced students and scholars in the field.
Note on Contributors
Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction, Johanna Pink and Andreas G繹rke
I. The Formation of Boundaries: Early Evolution of the Genre
1. Eve in the Formative Period of Islamic Exegesis: Intertextual Boundaries and Hermeneutic Demarcations, Catherine Bronson
2. Mujhids Exegesis: Beginnings, Ways of Transmission and Development of a Meccan Exegetical Tradition in its Human, Spiritual and Theological Environment, Claude Gilliot
3. The 紮喝娶a紳ic Commentary of Muqtil b. Sulaymn and the Evolution of Early 啦硃款莽蘋娶 Literature, Nicolai Sinai
II. Disciplinary Boundaries and their Permeation: The Place of 啦硃款莽蘋娶 in Islamic Scholarship
4. Interrelations and Boundaries between 啦硃款莽蘋娶 and Hadith Literature: The Exegesis of Mlik b. Anas 紼喝滄硃廜凍僮硃尨 and Classical 紮喝娶a紳ic Commentaries, Roberto Tottoli
5. 釦堯櫻款勳尪蘋Followers of one of the legal schools of Islam founded by Ab贖 尪Abd Allh Mu廎仟mmad al-釦堯櫻款勳尪蘋 (d. 974 CE). Hermeneutics and 紮喝娶a紳ic Interpretation in al-J廎可廕s Kitb al-尪Uthmniyya, Ignacio S獺nchez
6. 啦硃款莽蘋娶 between Law and Exegesis: The Case of Q. 49:9 (the Rebellion Verse/yat al-baghy), Rebecca Sauer
III. Boundaries of Dogma and Theology: The Expression of Ideas through 啦硃款莽蘋娶
7. al-Jurjn蘋: 啦硃款莽蘋娶 Theory between Linguistics and Theological Dogma, Nejmeddine Khalfallah
8. Interpretation and Reasoning in al-Q廎蘋 尪Abd al-Jabbrs 紮喝娶a紳ic Hermeneutics, Abdessamad Belhaj
9. 啦硃款莽蘋娶 and The Mythology of Islamic Fundamentalism, Neguin Yavari
IV. Reassessing Conventional Boundaries: Chronology, Geography, Media and Authorship
10. Where Does Modernity Begin? Mu廎仟mmad al-Shawkn蘋 and the Tradition of 啦硃款莽蘋娶, Johanna Pink
11. Redefining the Borders of 啦硃款莽蘋娶: Oral Exegesis, Lay Exegesis and Regional Particularities, Andreas G繹rke
12. 啦硃款莽蘋娶 and the Intellectual History of Islam in West Africa, Andrea Brigagli
V. An Expansion of Boundaries: The 啦硃款莽蘋娶 Tradition in Modern Times
13. Two Twentieth-century Exegetes between Traditional Scholarship and Modern Thought: Gender Concepts in the 啦硃款莽蘋娶s of Mu廎仟mmad 廎工sayn 廜柑b廜苔b尨蘋 and al-廜珀hir b. 尪sh贖r, Kathrin Klausing
14. Yaar Nuri zt羹rk: A Contemporary Turkish 啦硃款莽蘋娶 Theorist, Kathrin Eith
15. The Contemporary Translation of Classical Works Of 啦硃款莽蘋娶, Andrew Rippin
Bibliography
Index of 紮喝娶a紳ic Citations
General Index
[T]his edited volume is very valuable. … it contains important contributions of a high standard that pave the way for future research in the field. Moreover, it poses the right questions on the nature of the genre and the analytical tools needed to study it.
Pieter Coppens, Journal of Qur’anic Studies
Andreas G繹rke is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He earned his PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2001 and his Habilitation from the University of Basel in 2010. His publications include the monographs Das Kitb al-Amwl des Ab贖 尪Ubaid al-Qsim b. Sallm, Entstehung und berlieferung eines fruhislamischen Rechtswerkes (Princeton, 2003) and, co-authored with Gregor Schoeler, Die 瓣ltesten Berichte uber das Leben Mu廎仟mmads: Das Korpus 尪Urwa ibn az-Zubair (Princeton, 2008).
Johanna Pink is Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Bonn in 2002. Her publications include the monograph Sunnitischer Tafsir in der modernen islamischen Welt: Akademische Traditionen, Popularisierung und nationalstaatliche Interessen (Leiden, 2011).