New approaches to human dignity in the context of Qur'ānic anthropology : the quest for humanity / edited by Rüdiger Braun and Hüseyin I. Çiçek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braun, Rüdiger, 1966- editor.

Cicek, Hüseyin I., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan--Hermeneutics--Congresses.

Qurʼan.

Dignity--Religious aspects--Islam--Congresses.

Dignity.

Dignity--Religious aspects--Islam.

Hermeneutics.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 279 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

In recent years, the challenge of relating one's own theological concept of man and his destiny to secular topics, such as the inviolability of human dignity, has generated a dynamic discourse about how Islamic anthropology can help cultivate and perfect the individual self and social 'humanisation'. This anthology brings together contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to the secular notion of human dignity with reference to the Islamic tradition in general and the anthropology of the Qur'an in particular. The collection presents approaches to Islamic theological anthropology, across a range of fields, especially with regard to the narrative of Adam and Iblis, which occurs in all monotheistic traditions. It focuses on the specific 'grammars' of anthropological narratives at the levels of the canonical text of the Qur'an itself (Section I) and the interpretations that focus on its performative discourse (Section II). Further to this, the normative implications of the human images that are derived from the canonical text and its interpretations are discussed in Section III. The dynamic interdependencies between the hermeneutics of the Qur'an, theological anthropology and legal philosophy, particularly in the European context, are a promising field of research that not only allows a deeper insight into the multiperspectivity and indexicality of theological anthropology, but also has the potential to facilitate the long-overdue discursive cooperation and rapprochement between Muslim and non-Muslim scholarship. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Dynamics of Theological Anthropology in Islamic Contexts: An Introduction / Rüdiger Braun (Erlangen) Braun, Rüdiger, (Erlangen) 1

Section I Jewish and Religious Studies Grammars - The Specificity of the Qur'anic Discourse

Chapter 2 The Deconstruction of the Adam and Eve Narrative in Bereshit Rabbah: Variations on the Significance of the Name 'Adam', the Image of God and the Fall and Redemption of Man(kind) in Jewish Late Antiquity / Matthias Morgenstern (Tübingen) Morgenstern, Matthias, (Tübingen) 42

Chapter 3 Trialogical Anthropology: The Qur'an on Adam and Iblis in View of Rabbinic and Christian Discourse / Holger Zellentin (Nottingham) Zellentin, Holger, (Nottingham) 61

Chapter 4 If God is King, is Man his Vicegerent? Considering halifah in regard to Ancient Kingship / Ruben Schenzle (Berlin) Schenzle, Ruben, (Berlin) 132

Chapter 5 The Transformation of Mythical, Biblical and Apocryphal Narrations in the Qur'an: A Mimetic Approach / Hüseyin I. Çiçek (Erlangen) Çiçek, Hüseyin I., (Erlangen) 149

Section II Literary Studies and Exegesis Translations - Perspectives of Interpretation

Chapter 6 Anthropology and the Religious Dynamics of Mythologising: Remarks on Various Interpretations of the Adam Myth in Monotheistic Traditions / Cengiz Batuk (Samsun) Batuk, Cengiz, (Samsun) 164

Chapter 7 Reasoning Humanity: Toward a Contextual Reading of the Qur'anic Anthropology / Rüdiger Braun (Erlangen) Braun, Rüdiger, (Erlangen) 179

Chapter 8 From the Rational Term of 'Being' to the Theologico-Ethical Idea of Selfhood / Muhammad Nekroumi (Erlangen) Nekroumi, Muhammad, (Erlangen) 221

Section III Islamic Philosophy/Ethics and Law Hermeneutics - Secular Universalism and Religious Legitimacy

Chapter 9 Time and Historicity of Man in the Context of His Divine Destiny Reflections on Qur'anic Anthropology and Alterity in the Perspective of Modern Hermeneutics / Burhanettin Tatar (Samsun) Tatar, Burhanettin, (Samsun) 238

Chapter 10 Islam, the Enlightenment and the Justification of Human Dignity / Mehmet Sait Reçber (Ankara) Reçber, Mehmet Sait, (Ankara) 250

Chapter 11 Human Dignity and the Creativeness of Muslim Fiqh: Reflections on Classical and Contemporary Muslim Approaches to the Challenges of Equality between Human Beings / Mouez Khalfaoui (Tübingen) Khalfaoui, Mouez, (Tübingen) 260.

Notes:

"This volume owes its genesis to a symposium on 'Approaches to the notion of dignity and deficiency in the context of Qur'ānic anthropology' held in September 2015 at the Chair for the Study of Religions at the University of Erlangen (FAU)."--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781443898614

1443898619

OCLC:

973379468

Publisher Number:

99972104751