New trends in Qur'anic studies : text, context, and interpretation (Book report)

The title is a book in Quranic studieds edited by Mun'im A. Sirry 1971 published by Lockwood Press 2019, Atlanta, Georgia.[1]

Contents

Introduction

Recent trends in qur'anic studies / Mun'im Sirry

1. Trends and issues in Qur'anic studies. Reflections on the history and evolution of western study of the Qur'an, from ca. 1900 to the present / Fred M. Donner

Indonesian muslim responses to non-muslim approaches to Qur'anic studies / Yusuf Rahman

Semitic rhetoric and the Qur'an: the scholarship of Michel Cuypers / Adnane Mokrani ; From clerical to scriptural authority: the Qur'an's dialogue with the Syriac New Testament / Emran El-Badawi

A Qur'anic theodicy: Moses in the Surat al-Kahf (Q 18) / David Penchansky Contemporary shi'i approaches to the history of the text of the Qur'an / Seyfeddin Kara

The computer and the Qur'an: an analysis and appraisal / Adam Flowers

2. Trends and issues in tafsir studies. reading the qur'an contextually: approaches and challenges / Abdullah Saeed

"Qur'anism" in modern Qur'an interpretation / Izza Rohman Understanding patriarchal interpretations of Q 4:34 in the Light of Stanley Fish's "Interpretive Communities" / Adis Duderija

The global Islamic tradition and the nation state in the contemporary Muslim exegesis of the Qur'an / Johanna Pink

Interpreting the Qur'an between shari'ah and changing custom: on women's dress in Indonesia / Munirul Ikhwan

The hermeneutics of legitimate leadership: Qurubi's commentary on Q 2:30 (the Adam Verse) / Han Hsien Liew

"Deviant" Qur'anic interpretation in Indonesia: reading Lia Eden's defense of the claim to prophethood / Al Makin

Sufi commentaries on the Qur'an in Indonesia: the poetry of Hamzah al-Fansuri and Haji Hasan Mustapa / Jajang A. Rohmana.

Summary

The essays in this volume discuss recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur'ān and its exegesis. The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented development in qur'anic studies in terms of both the number of volumes that have been produced and the wide range of issues covered. It is not an exaggeration to say that the field of qur'anic studies today has become the 'crown' of Islamic studies. In this book, scholars of diverse approaches critically engage with the Qur'ān and its exegesis, including questions about the milieu in which the Qur'ān emerged, the Qur'ān's relation to the biblical tradition, its chronology, textual integrity, and its literary features. In addition, this volume addresses recent scholarship on tafsīr (qur'anic exegesis), including thematic interpretation, diacronic and syncronic readings of the Qur'ān. Various approaches to understanding the Muslim scripture with or without tafsīr are also discussed.


Book Identifier

ISBN: 9781948488198

ISBN: 1948488191

Related Titles

Series: International Qur'ānic Studies Association studies in the Qur'ān

Publisher: Atlanta, Georgia: Lockwood Press

Language: English

Publication Date: 2019

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