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Adopts a unique methodology to provide a detailed hermeneutical
reading of the story of al-Khidr. The book rethinks and revives the
marginalized Qur'anic global humanitarian message. The Qur'anic
Dilemma is a groundbreaking resource for all scholars of Islamic
Studies, or those interested in Qur'anic interpretation, Muslim
ethics, or comparative theology.
Driven by a detailed hermeneutical investigation of the Qur'anic
story of creation, this book questions the hybrid Biblical/Qur'anic
narrative that gradually erased the lines that define the authentic
Qur'anic account. Abla Hasan argues that humanity's divine status
is the bedrock from which to investigate the meaning of human
religiosity and address the problem of pain and suffering. The
detailed analysis in this book answers many linguistic and logical
pending questions in the Qur'an and is a serious departure from
popular Muslim narratives that seek to alleviate our pain and
suffering.
This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal
approaches to the Qur'an and calls for a questioning of the
interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur'anic commentaries.
The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic
teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and
gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and
loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of
reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and
exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to
semantically reshape the Qur'anic text. The vigilant reading the
author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests
that many interpretive approaches to the Qur'an are dominated by
sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text
itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound
books of tafsir indicate that the Qur'anic text often suffers from
historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism,
gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal
approaches to the Qur’an and calls for a questioning of the
interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur’anic commentaries.
The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic
teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and
gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and
loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of
reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and
exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to
semantically reshape the Qur’anic text. The vigilant reading the
author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests
that many interpretive approaches to the Qur’an are dominated by
sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text
itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound
books of tafsīr indicate that the Qur’anic text often suffers
from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism,
gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
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