One of the characteristics of the 'conservative religious revival'
movements in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is the commitment to a
scriptural text as the sole source of knowledge, and an insistence
on the literal interpretation of this text. However little has been
to done to investigate this phenomenon of interpretation which
proposes the literal meaning as the only acceptable one. This book
fills this gap with respect to Islam, looking both at literal
meaning and literalism. The focus is on the tradition of Muslim
legal writings: in this literature there exists a complex procedure
of how to identify the literal meaning and the role it has in
interpreting texts. The author also makes reference to Quranic
exegesis (tafsir) and Arabic rhetorical works, since many of the
ideas of legal hermeneutics were derived from these cognate
traditions of learning. The overall aim is to take an important
modern phenomenon (Muslim commitment to the literal meaning of the
revelatory texts) and place it in an historical context. The Muslim
debates analysed in the book are described through the prism of
modern Western linguistic philosophy, and a chronology of the
development of Muslim conceptions of literal meaning structures the
book.
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