Binding: Paperback
Description: Reading the Qur an in the Twenty - First Century considers the development of Qur anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from various theological legal socio - political and philosophical backgrounds think about the meaning and relevance of the Qur an and how their ideas apply in the contemporary world. The book: reflects on one of the most dominant approaches to interpretation in the pre - modern period textualism and the reaction to that in Muslim feminist readings of the Qur an today covers issues such as identifying the hierarchical nature of Qur anic values the criteria for the use of hadith in interpretation fluidity of meaning and ways of ensuring a degree of stability in interpretation examines key Qur'anic passages and compares pre - modern and modern interpretations to show the evolving nature of interpretation. Examples discussed include: the authority of men over women the death of Jesus shura and democracy and riba and interest Abdullah Saeed provides a practical guide for interpretation and presents the principal ideas of a contextualist approach which situates the original message of the Qur an in its wider social political cultural economic and intellectual context. He advocates a more flexible method of interpretation that gives due recognition to earlier interpretations of the Qur an while also being aware of changing conditions and the need to approach the Qur an afresh today. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives (CC - BY - NC - ND) 4.0 license.
Title: Reading The Qur'an In The Twenty - First Century A Contextualist Approach
Author(s): Saeed Abdullah (University Of Melbourne Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415677509
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 11/15/2013
Category: Islamic Theology