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The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism - From Taha to Nasr (Hardcover)
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The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism - From Taha to Nasr (Hardcover)
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
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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 Quranic exegesis by explaining - and distinguishing between -
interpretation and explication. While the book focuses on Quranic
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
Quranic 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.
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