"In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Qur'anic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation...

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Main Author:	Salama, Mohammad (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Bloomsbury Academic 2018
Series:	Suspensions: contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought
Subjects:	Koran Geschichte 1900-2000 Literaturkritik Arabisch Interpretation Literatur Ägypten Qurʼan / Criticism, interpretation, etc Qurʼan as literature Criticism / Egypt / History / 20th century
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	"In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship. The book presents reflections on Qur'anic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between - interpretation and explication. While the book focuses on Qur'anic and literary scholarship in twentieth-century Egypt from Taha Husayn to Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, it also engages with an immense tradition of scholarship from the classical period to the present, including authors such as Abu 'Ubayda, Ibn 'Abbas, al-Razi, and al-Tabari. Salama argues that, over the centuries, the Arabic language experienced semantic and phonological shifts, creating a lacuna in understanding the Qur'an and bringing contemporary readers under the spell of hermeneutical and parochial interpretations. He demonstrates that while this lacuna explains much of the intellectual poverty of traditionalist approaches to Qur'anic exegesis, the work of the modern Egyptian school of academics marks a sharp departure from the programmed conservatism of Islamist and Salafi exegetics. Through analyses of the writings of these intellectuals, the author shows that a fresh look at the sources and a revolutionary attempt to approach the Qur'an could render tradition itself an impetus for an alternative aesthetics - contextual, open, and unfolding."--Bloomsbury Publishing A Cartesian backfire? Ṭaha Ḥusayn, the Qurʼan, and the cogito -- The return to philology and the unmasking of traditionalism in Amin al- Khuli -- Muḥammad Aḥmad Khalafallah: the art of narrative in the Qurʼan -- Bint al-Shaṭiʼ: literary significations in the Qurʼan -- Reclaiming Qurʼanic exegesis: Naṣr Ḥamid Abu Zayd between traditionalism and postsecularism -- On metaphor: Abu Zayd and the ideologies of majaz in the Qurʼan
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 162 pages)
ISBN:	9781474253260 9781474253253 9781474253277
DOI:	10.5040/9781474253260