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This book investigates the methodological issues raised by the encounter between Islamic thought and contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. It features essays that examine why and how current Muslim thinkers refer to Continental philosophy. The contributors put the universality of the hermeneutic order to the test with three different approaches.
The first looks at exegetical aspects. It addresses contemporary thinkers from the Islamicate world who have engaged critically or not with main representatives or key concepts of philosophical hermeneutics. The second presents an interpretative analysis. The essays here present attempts at using philosophical hermeneutics in order to develop new interpretations of canonical or traditional ensembles of texts such as the Qur'an and the Hadith as well as legal, spiritual, and philosophical corpuses from the Islamicate world. The third looks at different political and critical issues.
The clear and sound reference to religion ofIslamic thought makes its entanglement with philosophical hermeneutics a burning challenge for all parties involved. Is it true, as some contend, that philosophical hermeneutics can help interpret Islamic thought anew? This book reveals how the two philosophies are likely to expand each other's horizons and influence each other's conceptual frameworks. It features revised papers from an International Conference.
List of contents
Phenomenological Hermeneutics of Falsafa?.- L'image est-elle traduisible en concept ? Discours poétique et plaisir intellectuel chez Avicenne.- An Idea of Political Hermeneutics in Farabi's Philosophy.- Interpréter ou ne pas interpréter. La question herméneutique de la « docte ignorance » chez Ibn 'Arabi.- The "Veil of Glory": Perplexity (hayra) and Revelation in the Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Ibn Arabi.- Cosmic Hermeneutics: A Critical Appraisal of Henry Corbin's Hermeneutical Approach.- Building Islamic Thought on New Foundations: Shabestari's Manifold Use of Hermeneutics.- Revelation, Prophetic Reading of the World, and the End of Fiqh. Shabestari's Hermeneutical Approach to the Qur'an.- Retrieving the Foundations and Future of Islamic Modernism: Rahman and Shabestari on Hermeneutics, Prophetic Epistemology, and the Modern Islamic State.- Twentieth Century Commentary of the Qur'an: From Hermeneutics to Praxis: Maqasid al-Shari'aand Maqasid al-Qur'an.- Hermeneutics and Islamic Liberation Theologies: Hasan Hanafi and Hamid Dabashi.- On the Limits of Islamist Heideggerianism: A Critique of Sayyidian Onto-Theology.- Naskh as a Key to the Ontology of the Qur'an.- Toward a "Devilish" Hermeneutics of the Qur'an.
About the author
Sylvain Camilleri is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the Catholic University of Louvain. His areas of specialization are continental philosophy of religion and contemporary Islamic thought. He has authored two monographs on Heidegger and several articles on thinkers such as Mohammed Arkoun, Nasr Hamid Abu Zeid and Hassan Hanafi.
Selami Varlik is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the Istanbul 29 Mayis University in Turkey. His areas of specialization are phenomenological hermeneutics (Ricoeur, Gadamer) and Islamic philosophy, especially Avicenna. He has authored articles on these topics as well as on contemporary Islamic thought and a monograph on appropriation in Ricoeur.
