Qur'an Modern Muslim Interpretations

Name: Qur'an Modern Muslim Interpretations
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ISBN: 9780415558303

ISBN-10: 0415558301

ISBN-13: 9780415558303

Edition: 2010

Authors: Massimo Campanini

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Reading the Qur'an in the Modern World offers a lucid guide to the ways in which Muslims have read the Qur'an in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Massimo Campanini begins by exploring early approaches to the understanding of the Quran, including the Salafis and the construction of the Islamic Renaissance Movement. He then moves on to contrast the development of two major schools: the traditionalists and the 'scientific' interpreters. These were followed by the phenomenologists, who created a lively and original approach to exegesis. He explores the radical ideas of Sayyid Qutb and his followers, which are significant part of what has become known as political Islamism. Lastly he…

Book details

List price: $56.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 9/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 154
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.17" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Massimo Campanini is Professor of Arabic Culture at the University of Milan. His publications include The Theory of Socialism in Egypt (1987), Islam and Politics (1999) and The Virtuous City of al-Farabi (1996).



Translator's introduction


Introduction: The Qur'an and praxis



Traditional commentary


Salafi commentary


Traditionalist commentary


"Scientific" commentary



The Qur'an as text, discourse and structure



The Qur'an as literary text



Historicity of the Qur'an and hermeneutics



Thematic interpretation of the Qur'an



The Qur'an and Nazm



Radical exegesis of the Qur'an: Sayyid Qutb



The Qur'an and the hermeneutics of liberation


Appendix: Other areas of Qur'anic exegesis


Notes


Index