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Understanding the Qur'anic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age:

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ISBN-10: 0271061561

ISBN-13: 9780271061566

Edition: 2013

Authors: Isra Yazicioglu

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The Qur'an contains many miracle stories, from Moses's staff turning into a serpent to Mary's conceiving Jesus as a virgin. In Understanding the Qur'anic Miracle Stories in the Modern Age, Isra Yazicioglu offers a glimpse of the ways in which meaningful implications have been drawn from these apparently strange narratives, both in the premodern and modern era. It fleshes out a fascinating medieval Muslim debate over miracles and connects its insights with early and late modern turning points in Western thought and with contemporary Qur'anic interpretation. Building on an apparent tension within the Qur'an and analyzing crucial cases of classical and modern Muslim engagement with these…    
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Book details

List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
Binding: Cloth Text 
Pages: 208
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction: The Qur'anic Miracle Stories: A Puzzling Motif?
A Medieval Muslim Debate
In Defense of a Literal Reading of Miracles: Ghazali's Case for Contingency and Grace
A Cautious Approach to Miracle Stories: Ibn Rushd's Case for Rationalism and Divine Wisdom
Reframing the Debate on Miracles in Modern Terms
David Hume on Empiricism, Common Sense, and Miracles
Charles S. Peirce on Pragmatism, Science, and Miracles
Contemporary Connections
Said Nursi's Contemporary Reading of Qur'anic Miracle Stories
Conclusion: Qur�anic Hermeneutics in the Modern Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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