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A collection of essays by leading scholars of the Qur'an and Qur'an commentary (tafsīr), looking at the theoretical aims, practical methods, and contexts of tafsīr from 2nd/8th-9th/15th centuries. The volume includes primary source material, in the form of editions and translations of the introductions to two works of tafsīr.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: The Aims of Tafs¿r
- 1: Feras Hamza: Tafs¿r and Unlocking the Historical Qur'an: Back to Basics?
- 2: Karen Bauer: Justifying the Genre: A Study of Introductions to Classical works of Tafs¿r,
- 3: Walid A. Saleh: The Introduction to al-W¿¿id¿'s al-Bas¿t: An Edition, Translation and Commentary
- 4: Suleiman A. Mourad: Towards a Reconstruction of the Mu'tazil¿ Tradition of Qur'anic Exegesis: Reading the Introduction to the Tahdh¿b of al-¿¿kim al-Jishum¿ (d. 494/1101) and Its Application
- 2: Methods and Sources of Tafs¿r
- 5: Robert Gleave: Early Shi'i Hermeneutics: Some Exegetical Techniques Attributed to the Shi'i Imams
- 6: Andrew Rippin: The Construction of the Arabian Historical Context in Muslim Interpretation of the Qur'an
- 7: Roberto Tottoli: Methods and Contexts in the Use of Hadiths in Classical Tafs¿r Literature: The Exegesis of Q. 21:85 and Q. 17:1
- 8: Martin Nguyen: Letter by Letter: Tracing the Textual Genealogy of a Sufi Tafs¿r
- 9: Tariq Jaffer: Fakhr al-D¿n al-R¿z¿'s System of Inquiry
- 10: Ludmila Zamah: Master of the Obvious: Understanding ¿¿hir Interpretations in Qur'anic Exegesis
- 11: Stephen Burge: Jal¿l al-D¿n al-Suy¿¿¿, the Mu'awwidhat¿n and the Modes of Exegesis
- 3: Contextualising Tafs¿r
- 12: Claude Gilliot: A Schoolmaster, Storyteller, Exegete, and Warrior at Work in Khur¿s¿n: al- .Dä¿¿k b. Muz¿¿im al-Hil¿l¿ (d. 106/ 724)
- 13: Michael E. Pregill: Methodologies for the Dating of Exegetical Works and Traditions: Can the Lost Tafs¿r of Kalb¿ be Recovered from Tafs¿r Ibn 'Abb¿s (also known as al-W¿di¿)?
- Bibliography
Zusammenfassung
A collection of essays by leading scholars of the Qur'an and Qur'an commentary (tafsir), looking at the theoretical aims, practical methods, and contexts of tafsir from 2nd/8th-9th/15th centuries. The volume includes primary source material, in the form of editions and translations of the introductions to two works of tafsir.
Zusatztext
[T]his is a highly valuable contribution to the field which stakes out the frontiers in tafsir studies. In doing so it shows the need to at reconstructing the exegetes' hermeneutics. It also shows that early dating of sources and concepts appears to be becoming more plausible, possibly indicating that linguistics has functioned as the necessary sustenance of tafsir
