Muslim Qurʼānic interpretation today : media, genealogies and interpretive communities / Johanna Pink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pink, Johanna, author.

Series:

Themes in Qur'ānic Studies

Themes in Qurʼānic studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qurʼan.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

History.

Qurʼan--Commentaries--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 322 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, South Yorkshire ; Bristol, CT : Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2019.

Summary:

Muslim Qur'ānic interpretation today is beset by tensions. Tensions between localizing and globalizing forces; tensions between hierarchical and egalitarian social ideals; and tensions between the quest for new approaches and the claim for authority raised by defenders of exegetical traditions. it is this complex web of power structures, local as well as global, that this book seeks to elucidate. This book provides a fresh perspective on present-day Qur'ānic interpretations by analyzing the historical, social and political dimensions in which they take place, the ways in which they are performed and the media through which they are transmitted. Besides discussing the persistence of exegetical traditions and the emergence of new paradigms, it examines the structural conditions in which these processes occur. Languages, nation states, global human rights discourses and intra-Islamic divisions all shape the nature of interpretive endeavors and frequently fuel conflicts over the correct understanding of the Qur'ān. This book contains more than twenty detailed case studies of recent Qur'ānic interpretations, based on translated texts that cover a variety of languages, regions, media, genres, approaches, authors and target groups. They are integrated into the chapters, bring their arguments to life and stimulate fundamental reflections on the authority of the text and the authority of its interpreters.

Contents:

Acknowledgements. Prologue: the contested Qur'ān. Introduction : Qur'ānic interpretation today: tensions and power fields

This book's approach. 1 The new centrality of the Qur'ānic message : The place of the Qur'ān in premodern Muslim societies

The shift to the centre : Pedagogy and guidance (hidāya): an Indonesian comic book on Q. 49:12

Ambiguity, disambiguation and guidance

Translation and da ʻwa: a protestantisation of the Qur'ān?: televangelism and da ʻwa: ' Amr Khālid (b.1967, Egypt) on Q 23:1-11. 2 Reconstituting the exegetical tradition : A genealogical tradition

The ʻulamā as bearers of the tradition: An ̕ālim continuing the tradition of tafsīr: Muhammad Quraish Shihab (b.1944, Indonesia) on Q. 95:1-3

A Salafi paradigm: reshaping the tradition: Shaykh al-Mubarakpuri's Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged) (India/Saudi Arabia) on Q. 38:21-25

Present-day Salafi exegesis: Takfir: Seyfuddin El-Muvahhid's Davetçinin Tefsiri (Turkey/?) on Q. 4:116

Exegetical traditions as a resource: Condensing the tradition: ʻĀ iḍ b. ʻAbdallāh al-Qarnī (b.1959, Saudi Arabia) on Q. 9:112. 3 Media : Media transformations: from manuscripts to print and beyond: Layers of media; Abdolali Bazargan (b.1943; Iran/US) on Q. 103:3

Visual dimensions: Tafsīr in pictures: H. Abdul Mustaqim (b.1972, Indonesia) on Q. 104

Preaching and media: audio-visual representations and the internet: from television to YouTube: audio-visual interpretations of the Fātiḥa

YouTube exegetes on Q. 1:6-7: Ḥasan b. Farḥān al=Mālikī (b.1970, Saudi Arabia) on Q. 1:6-7. 4 Modernism and its paradigms : Modernism and other labels

Maqāṣid, or the Qur'ān's higher aims

Historical contextualisation and its sources

Tafsīr in the order of revelation: reading the Qur'ān in its chronological arrangement: Muḥammad ʻĀbid al-Jābirī (1935-2010, Morocco) on Q. 109

Abrogation (naskh) and its opponents: chronology, context, semantics: Talip Özdeş (b.1954, Turkey) on Q. 16:101

Semantics and the "literal meaning"

Literary exegesis

Thematic tafsīr (tafsīr mawḍū ʻī)

Tafsīr al-Qur ʻān bi'l-Qur'ān

The contested Sunna: from ḥadīth-based exegesis to Qur'ānism: a Qur'ānist approach: Aḥmad Ṣubḥī Manṣūr (b.1949, Egypt/USA) on Q. 2:221. 5 In defense of a perfect scripture: the Qur'ān as a holistic system : Defending polygamy: Karīmān Ḥamza (b.1942, Egypt) on Q. 4:3

Islamist Qur'ānic interpretation

The "system" (naẓm) and structure of the Qur'ān: the sacralisation of the Qur'ān's canonical arrangement: ʻAmr Khālid on structure of the Qur'ān and the unity of sūras

ʻAmr Khālid on Sūra al-Nisā (Q. 4)

Science and the i ʻjāz paradigm: the scientific i ʻjāz: miracles of Quran on Q. 27:18. 6 The global Qur'ān in a diverse world : Negotiating the boundaries of Islamicness through the Qur'ān: Ali Adil Atalay "Vaktidolu" (b.1936, Turkey) on Q. 2:21

Centre, periphery and hierarchies on language

Nation states: state building: the Indonesian Ministry of Religion on Q. 12:54-5

Sunni and Shi'i Islam

Sufism: a female Sufi shaykh: Cemâlnur Sargut (b.1952, Turkey) on Q. 112

New Islamic communities: the Admadiyya and the death of Jesus: disputes over Q. 3:55. 7 clashes and fault lines : Gender, queerness and the Qur'ān: debates on same-sex marriage: Mun'in Sirry (b.1973, Indonesia) on the story of Lot

Causes for conflict: doubt versus certainty: Aḥmad Khayrī al-ʻUmarī (b.1970, Iraq) on Q. 21:51-56 and his critics

Postmodern uncertainties and subjective approaches: subjectivity and Qur'ānic interpretation in a Muslim intellectual's blog: Hakan Turan (b.1979, Germany) on Q. 5:51. Epilogue: the Qur'ān, textual interpretation and authority, or: may husbands beat their wives? Bibliography

Index

Index of Qur'ānic citations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Pink, Johanna. Muslim Qurʼānic interpretation today.

ISBN:

9781781791431

1781791430

9781781791448

1781791449

OCLC:

1019841932

Publisher Number:

99980564335