Qur'anic Studies Series – serie
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19 produkter
The Vernacular Qur'an
Translation and the Rise of Persian Exegesis
Av Travis Zadeh
Inbunden, 2012
1077 kr
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This book examines how early juridical and theological debates on the translatability of the Qur'an informed the development of Persian translations and commentaries of the Qur'an. While it is generally believed that Muslims in the eighth to twelfth centuries were disdainful of translating the …
An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II
On Women
Inbunden, 2021
1229 kr
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Building on the success of Anthology, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, this second volume in the series focuses on a critical and contentious theme: Women in the Qurʾan and traditional Qurʾanic commentaries. It comprises analysis of the female subject in the Qurʾan, annotated translations of …
An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries
Volume 1: On the Nature of the Divine
Av Feras Hamza, Sajjad Rizvi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1229 kr
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This pioneering volume, the first in a series, presents a plurality of voices, methods and concerns in Qur'anic interpretation ranging from the 8th century to the present day. No previous work has drawn on such a comprehensive range of commentaries and covered such a wide spectrum of theological …
Sufi Master and Qur'an Scholar
Abū'l-Qasim al-Qushayrī and the Latā'if al-Ishārāt
Inbunden, 2012
829 kr
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This book is the first extensive examination of the medieval Qur'an commentary known as the Latāif al-Ishārāt and the first critical biography of its author, the famous spiritual master Abū'l-Qasim al-Qushayrī. Written in 5th/11th century Nishapur, an intellectual and cultural crossroads of the …
Keys to the Arcana II
Shahrastānī's esoteric commentary on the Qurʾan II: A translation of the commentary on Sūrat al-Baqara, vv.1-123
Inbunden, 2026
2161 kr
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Shahrastānī (d. 548/1153) was best known as an authority in the Ashʿarī school of Sunnī orthodoxy and for his world survey of religious and philosophical doctrines. His later works bear out what some of his contemporaries had claimed, that he secretly inclined to 'the people of the mountain …
Translating the Qur'an in an Age of Nationalism
Print Culture and Modern Islam in Turkey
Inbunden, 2014
771 kr
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Over the course of the past two centuries, the central text of Islam has undergone twin revolutions. Around the globe, Muslim communities have embraced the printing and translating of the Qur'an, transforming the scribal text into a modern book that can be read in virtually any language. What began …
The Meaning of the Word
Lexicology and Qur'anic Exegesis
Av S. R. Burge
Inbunden, 2015
1077 kr
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The basic intention of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsīr) is to understand what the text of the Qur'an means. Before attempting to understand anything of the Qur'anic worldview, its theology and ethical values, there is a need for exegetes to engage with the individual words found in the Qur'an itself. …
The Qur'an and its Readers Worldwide
Contemporary Commentaries and Translations
Inbunden, 2016
924 kr
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Some eighty per cent of Muslims in the contemporary world speak languages other than Arabic, the language of the Qur'an. To respond to the needs of their communities, Muslim scholars and laypersons must increasingly explain and communicate the meanings of the Qur'an in their own languages -- …
The Spirit and the Letter
Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qur'an
Av Annabel Keeler, Sajjad H. Rizvi
Inbunden, 2016
924 kr
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This volume is the first to focus specifically on esoteric interpretation as a phenomenon in the field of Qur'anic exegesis and to show the plurality of ways it has been manifested in different Muslim traditions. Concern with the inner, spiritual implications of the Qur'an has usually been …
Sufi Hermeneutics
The Qur'an Commentary of Rashīd Al-Dīn Maybudī
Häftad, 2017
351 kr
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This is the first major study in a Western language of Rashid al-Din Maybudi's Persian commentary on the Qur'an Kashf al-asrar wa 'uddat al-abrar (Unveiling of Mysteries and Provision of the Righteous). Annabel Keeler explores the interplay between scriptural exegesis and mystical doctrine in a …
Keys to the Arcana
Shahrastani's Esoteric Commentary on the Qur'an
Av Toby Mayer
Häftad, 2020
389 kr
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Only preserved in a single manuscript in Tehran, this remarkable twelfth-century Qur'anic commentary by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim al- Shahrastani marks the achievement of a lifelong, arduous quest for knowledge. Shahrastani began writing Mafatih al-asrar or Keys to the Arcana towards the end of his …
Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran
Inbunden, 2019
924 kr
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Approaches to the Qur'an in Contemporary Iran 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. The chapters included in the volume have been written by some of the …
Approaches to the Qur'an in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inbunden, 2019
924 kr
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Covering a period from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, this multidisciplinary volume examines Muslim engagements with the Qur'an in a variety of geographical locations in sub-Saharan Africa including Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Tanzania. The …
The Emergence of Shi'i Sufism
Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi and His Commentary on the Qur'an
Inbunden, 2023
1077 kr
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The Bayan al-sa'ada fi maqamat al-'ibada (The Elucidation of Bliss concerning the Spiritual Stations of Worship) is a central work in the modern intellectual and religious history of Iran and Shi'i Islam. A Qur'anic commentary (tafsir) by Sultan 'Ali Shah Gunabadi (d. 1909), it represents a mature …
Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an
A Patronage of Piety
Inbunden, 2023
1382 kr
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It is commonly understood that the Qur'an sought to transform social and religious practices in its seventh-century Arabian milieu. Yet the nature of that transformation is debated, especially as it relates to women, warfare, kinship and community. This book offers a fresh perspective by …
Sufi Hermeneutics
The Qur'an Commentary of Rashīd Al-Dīn Maybudī
Inbunden, 2007
1188 kr
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This is the first major study in a Western language of Rashid al-Din Maybudi's Persian commentary on the Qur'an Kashf al-asrar wa 'uddat al-abrar (Unveiling of Mysteries and Provision of the Righteous). Annabel Keeler explores the interplay between scriptural exegesis and mystical doctrine in a …
Keys to the Arcana
Shahrastānī's Esoteric Commentary on the Qur'an
Av Toby Mayer
Inbunden, 2009
1031 kr
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Only preserved in a single manuscript in Tehran, this remarkable twelfth-century Qur'anic commentary by Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Karim al- Shahrastānī marks the achievement of a lifelong, arduous quest for knowledge. Shahrastānī began writing Mafatih al-asrār or Keys to the Arcana towards the end of his …
Word of God, Art of Man: The Qur'an and its Creative Expressions
Selected Proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003
Häftad, 2010
545 kr
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Muslim reverence for the Qur'an as the Word of God has manifested itself in various artistic forms throughout history and up to the present day. This innovative collection of essays explores creative expressions of the Qur'an in a wide range of media. Contributors include museum curators and …
The Sanaa Palimpsest
The Transmission of the Qur'an in the First Centuries AH
Av Asma Hilali
Inbunden, 2017
707 kr
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This volume provides a new annotated edition of the two layers of the 'Sanaa palimpsest', one of the oldest Qur'an manuscripts yet discovered, together with a critical introduction that offers new hypotheses concerning the transmission of the Qur'an during the first centuries of Islam. The …
