The Qur'an : modern Muslim interpretations

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The Qur'an : modern Muslim interpretations

Massimo Campanini ; translated by Caroline Higgitt

Routledge, 2011

  • : hbk

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L'esegesi musulmana del Corano nel secolo ventesimo

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Includes index

"Originally published in Italian as L'esegesi musulmana del Corano nel secolo ventesimo" -- T.p. verso

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Description

The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations offers a lucid guide to how Muslims have read the Qur'an in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Massimo Campanini explores early approaches to the understanding of the Qur'an, including that of the Salafis and the construction of the Islamic Renaissance Movement, contrasting the development of traditionalist and 'scientific' interpretations and examining the work of the phenomenologists who followed. This lively book explores the radical ideas of Sayyid Qutb and his followers, a significant part of what is known as political Islamism, and investigates the idea of exegesis as a liberation theology, through the work of Esack and Wadud. Students taking courses on the interpretation of the Qur'an will find this an invaluable aid to their study, and it is essential reading for all those interested in how Muslims have understood the Qur'an in the contemporary period.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Qur'an and Praxis 1. Traditional Commentary 2. The Qur'an as Text, Discourse and Structure 3. Radical Exegesis of the Qur'an: Sayyid Qutb 4. The Qur'an and the Hermeneutics of Liberation Appendix: Other Areas of Qur'anic Exegesis

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