1st Edition
Schools of Qur'anic Exegesis Genesis and Development
By Hussein Abdul-Raof
Copyright 2010
296 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Qur’anic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought. Using comparative and contrastive methodology, examples from the Qur'an are investigated in the light of various theological views to delineate the birth, development and growth of Qur'anic exegesis.
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Introduction 1. Preamble to Qur’anic Exegesis 2. Exegesis and Hadith 3. The Politics of Exegesis 4. Dichotomy Between Tafsir and Ta’wil 5. Evolution of Exegesis 6. The Formative Schools of Exegesis 7. Linguistic and Stylistic Tools of Exegesis 8. Jurisprudential Tools of Exegesis 9. Concluding Remarks
Biography
Hussein Abdul-Raof is Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Qur'anic Studies at the University of Leeds. His research interests include Arabic linguistics, Qur’anic studies, Arabic stylistics, Arabic rhetoric, and translation studies, and he has published widely on the Qur’an and Arabic rhetoric.
