1st Edition
The Qur'an in South Asia Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India
Introduction
1. Pre-Modern and Early Modern Qur’anic Hermeneutics in South Asia
2. The Qur’an and the Context of British India
3. Introducing Muslim Qur’an Commentators and Commentaries in British India
4. Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (1817-1898)
5. Ashraf 'Alī Thānawī (1863-1943)
6. Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (1863-1930)
7. Qur’anic Hermeneutics in the Twilight of Colonial India: Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modernity
8. Qur’an Projects and Muslim Imaginings of Islamic Tradition
Conclusion
Biography
Kamran Bashir is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at Beaconhouse National University (Lahore, Pakistan). His academic contributions have appeared in Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions, ed. James Walters (2018) and in the Journal of Qur’anic Studies and Social Identities. He has earlier taught at the University of Victoria and Camosun College, Canada.
