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Philosophical Perspectives on Modern Quranic Exegesis - Key Paradigms and Concepts

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book explores the possibility of a hermeneutics of the Qur'an. It starts from the presupposition that the Qur'an can be studied as a philosophical book. Thus the analysis is theoretical more than historical. Many philosophers commented the Qur'an and many supported their theories by resorting to the Qur'an. Thinkers like Fakhr al-Din al-Razi connected traditional theology and philosophy in their Qur'anic commentary. Others like Nasr Abu Zayd used philosophy to deconstruct the Qur'an paving the way for a modern humanistic hermeneutics. This book tries to go a step further: it aims to offer a path within the Qur'an that - through philosophy - leads to a fresh understanding of fundamental tenets of Islamic thought, most importantly tawhid - God's oneness - and to a fresh reading of the Qur'anic text. This book applies the phenomenological and ontological hermeneutics of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger to the study of the Qur'an going far beyond Annemarie Schimmel's phenomenological approach that is neither philosophical nor properly phenomenological (in Husserl's sense).

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Massimo Campanini is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Trento. His published books in English include The Qur'an: The Basics (Routledge 2007), Introduction to Islamic Philosophy (Edinburgh University Press 2008) and The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations (Routledge 2011).

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This book explores the possibility of a hermeneutics of the Qur'an.

Product details

Authors Massimo Campanini
Publisher Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.12.2019
 
EAN 9781781792315
ISBN 978-1-78179-231-5
No. of pages 166
Dimensions 156 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
Weight 263 g
Series Themes in Qur'anic Studies
Themes in Qur'anic Studies
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

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