Approaches to the Qur''an in Contemporary Iran

List of contents

• Notes on Contributors


• Note on Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Section I: Power, Authority and Exegesis


• 1: Seyfeddin Kara: The Rational-analytical tafs¿r in modern Iran: The influence of the U¿¿l¿ School of Jurisprudence on the Interpretation of the Qur'an


• 2: Sajjad Rizvi: Striving Beyond the Balance (al-m¿z¿n): Spiritual Practice and the Qur'an in the ¿ab¿¿ab¿'¿ ¿ar¿qa


• 3: Liyakat Takim: Privileging the Qur'an: Divorce and the Hermeneutics of Ayatollah ¿¿ni¿


• 4: Neguin Yavari: Qur'anic Sanction and the Semiotics of Sovereignty in Contemporary Iran


• 5: Banafsheh Madaninejad: The Limits of a 'Fixed' Qur'an: The Iranian Religious Intellectual Movement Pushes Beyond the Historical Contextualization Method


• 6: Yaser Mirdamadi: Divine Inspiration and Mystical Experience: Abdolkarim Soroush's Theory of Qur'anic Revelation: A Historical-Philosophical Appraisal


• Section II: Alternative Approaches: Between Marginality and Legitimacy


• 7: Reza Tabandeh: A Sufi Defence of the Qur'an: ¿usayn 'Al¿ Sh¿h's Rebuttal of Henry Martyn and Sufism in Early Nineteenth-Century Iran


• 8: Rainer Brunner: Abrogation and Falsification of Scripture according to Shi'i Authors between Iraq and Iran (19th-20th Centuries)


• 9: Nicholas Boylston: Speaking the Secrets of Sanctity in the Tafs¿r of ¿af¿ 'Al¿ Sh¿h


• 10: Alessandro Cancian: Shi'i Sufism and Qur'anic Exegesis Early Modern Iran: Sul¿¿n 'Al¿ Sh¿h Gun¿b¿d¿ and his Bay¿n al-sa'¿da


• 11: Leonard Lewisohn: In the Company of the Qur'an by Müy¿ al-D¿n Il¿h¿ Ghomshei


• Section III: The Arts, Material Culture and Everyday Life


• 12: Alice Bombardier: Rediscovering a Contemporary Illustrated Qur'an: Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi's Illustrations of Jean Grosjean's Translation (1972)


• 13: Anna Vanzan: Women, Qur'an and the Power of Calligraphy in Contemporary Iran


• 14: Nacim Pak-Shiraz: The Divine Word on the Screen: Imaging the Qur'an in Iranian Cinema


• 15: Niloofar Haeri: qun¿t Verses from Inside and Outside of the Qur'an: Sources of Variability in the Performance of Nam¿z


• 16: Ingvild Flaskerud: The Qur'an as an Efficacious Text: Contemporary Iranian Twelver Shi'i Women and the Oral Qur'an as Living Text


• 17: Giovanni De Zorzi: The Qur'an as an Aesthetical Model in Music? The Case of 20th-Century Iran


• Bibliography


• General Index

About the author

Alessandro Cancian is a Research Associate in the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the Institute of Ismaili Studies.

Summary

This collection explores the importance of the Qur'an in the religious, artistic, political, and intellectual discourses in modern and contemporary Iran from the nineteenth century to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Alessandro (Research Associate Cancian
• Assisted by: Alessandro Cancian (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.07.2019
• EAN: 9780198840763
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884076-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Qur'anic Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Iran, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Reference, 21st Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Islamic Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Politics & government, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Politics and government, Social and cultural anthropology, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts