{"title":"Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Critique of Religious Discourse: Naqd Khitab al-Dini","authors":"O. Leaman","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0505","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46982753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article seeks to define the meaning of the technical linguistic term ‘ ishbāʿ al-maʿnā’ (‘enhancing the meaning’) and explore how this device helps clarify the linguistic structure of Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa (Q. 69). The Qur’anic text, held to transcend time and space, utilises literary styles and lexical structures to convey its meaning across a diverse range of contexts. In this article the author analyses a selection of verses, all of which are characterised by the presence of ishbāʿ al-maʿnā. Sūrat al-Hāqqa offers a good sample of this category of verses. The primary research question will be approached via four enquiries and ten investigative points that offer both description and analysis of the occurrence of ishbāʿ al-maʿnā within Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa and the role linguistics plays in this phenomenon throughout the sura, which focuses primarily on the Day of Judgement.
{"title":"Ishbāʿ al-maʿnā in the Qur’an: A Structural Survey of Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa (Q. 69)","authors":"Mohamed Ibrahim ElShafey","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0509","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to define the meaning of the technical linguistic term ‘ ishbāʿ al-maʿnā’ (‘enhancing the meaning’) and explore how this device helps clarify the linguistic structure of Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa (Q. 69). The Qur’anic text, held to transcend time and space, utilises literary styles and lexical structures to convey its meaning across a diverse range of contexts. In this article the author analyses a selection of verses, all of which are characterised by the presence of ishbāʿ al-maʿnā. Sūrat al-Hāqqa offers a good sample of this category of verses. The primary research question will be approached via four enquiries and ten investigative points that offer both description and analysis of the occurrence of ishbāʿ al-maʿnā within Sūrat al-Ḥāqqa and the role linguistics plays in this phenomenon throughout the sura, which focuses primarily on the Day of Judgement.","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43875081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the contributions of Farida Zomorrod, a female Qur’anic Sciences professor who has devoted herself to developing al-manhaj al-muṣṭalaḥī, a recent methodological trajectory of Qur’anic sciences in contemporary Morocco. As a current of reformist thought, this approach calls for renewed engagement with the Qur’an, especially through the study of technical concepts that can unlock Qur’anic interpretations and meanings relevant to contemporary challenges. Although the field of ‘women and the Qur’an’ has grown in recent decades, it has focused primarily on feminist hermeneutics. Less attention has been paid to scholars such as Zomorrod, who has not aligned herself with Islamic feminism: a lacuna which this article aims to address in some measure.
{"title":"ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān and the Diffusion of a New Methodology: A Rare Female Contribution to Qur’anic Sciences","authors":"A. Sayeed","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0504","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the contributions of Farida Zomorrod, a female Qur’anic Sciences professor who has devoted herself to developing al-manhaj al-muṣṭalaḥī, a recent methodological trajectory of Qur’anic sciences in contemporary Morocco. As a current of reformist thought, this approach calls for renewed engagement with the Qur’an, especially through the study of technical concepts that can unlock Qur’anic interpretations and meanings relevant to contemporary challenges. Although the field of ‘women and the Qur’an’ has grown in recent decades, it has focused primarily on feminist hermeneutics. Less attention has been paid to scholars such as Zomorrod, who has not aligned herself with Islamic feminism: a lacuna which this article aims to address in some measure.","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42922083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gabriel Said Reynolds, Allah: God in the Qur’an","authors":"D. Stewart","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0507","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44332550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sayel Hazza Al-hawawsha, S. A. Meqdad, Mohammed Aburahme
This study seeks to investigate the phenomenon of antonyms that are used to convey clear and hidden meanings in the Qur’an, with the aim of discovering more about the juxtapositional use of two words with opposing meaning, and the reasons for the use of one specific word over another – specifically the phenomenon of lexical items that carry a clear, unambiguous meaning presented in juxtaposition with those that indicate a hidden meaning, and vice versa. The paper begins by clarifying the notion of thanāʾiyyāt ḍiddiyya (antonyms) and explaining their significance for accessing textual meaning, and their power to create a clear image in the mind of the reader, and to create a sense of wonder and amazement that leads to conviction. Following this, the paper will then present a number of ‘clear’ and ‘hidden’ antonyms in the Qur’an and examine the overall structure of the verse in which they occur in order to attain an understanding of their intended meaning and, from this, the structural function of antonyms in the Qur’an. This study does not restrict itself to a descriptive-analytical methodology that is founded in extracting meaning from where it is expected and thereby arriving at the same interpretations as exegetes, or in linking lexicographical meanings and interpretations to the Qur’anic context in accordance with historical understanding. Instead, a variety of approaches are applied subject to context, so they can be assessed and then validated or rejected. The study reveals that the structural function of antonyms in both clear and obscure vocabulary can be incorporated into the holistic meaning in order to arrive at textual coherence in accordance with the rules of waḥdat al-khiṭāb (‘discourse unity’) and murāʿat al-maqām (‘observation of context’).
{"title":"The Semantic Arrangement of Antonyms in Clear and Ambiguous Vocabulary in the Qur'an","authors":"Sayel Hazza Al-hawawsha, S. A. Meqdad, Mohammed Aburahme","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0497","url":null,"abstract":"This study seeks to investigate the phenomenon of antonyms that are used to convey clear and hidden meanings in the Qur’an, with the aim of discovering more about the juxtapositional use of two words with opposing meaning, and the reasons for the use of one specific word over another – specifically the phenomenon of lexical items that carry a clear, unambiguous meaning presented in juxtaposition with those that indicate a hidden meaning, and vice versa. The paper begins by clarifying the notion of thanāʾiyyāt ḍiddiyya (antonyms) and explaining their significance for accessing textual meaning, and their power to create a clear image in the mind of the reader, and to create a sense of wonder and amazement that leads to conviction. Following this, the paper will then present a number of ‘clear’ and ‘hidden’ antonyms in the Qur’an and examine the overall structure of the verse in which they occur in order to attain an understanding of their intended meaning and, from this, the structural function of antonyms in the Qur’an. This study does not restrict itself to a descriptive-analytical methodology that is founded in extracting meaning from where it is expected and thereby arriving at the same interpretations as exegetes, or in linking lexicographical meanings and interpretations to the Qur’anic context in accordance with historical understanding. Instead, a variety of approaches are applied subject to context, so they can be assessed and then validated or rejected. The study reveals that the structural function of antonyms in both clear and obscure vocabulary can be incorporated into the holistic meaning in order to arrive at textual coherence in accordance with the rules of waḥdat al-khiṭāb (‘discourse unity’) and murāʿat al-maqām (‘observation of context’).","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46127670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mustafa Shah and Muhammad Abdel Haleem (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies","authors":"D. Stewart","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0495","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43871863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
One of the most important issues when studying Qur’an translation is the question of the extent to which the translation process is informed by a specific hermeneutical strategy. By analysing three translations published by one of the most active international actors in this area, the King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex in Medina, the current study is an exploratory attempt to systematise common features of Qur’an translations produced for Central Asian Muslim communities (in this case, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tajik). By comparing selected verses and supplementary materials, the analysis undertaken in this article suggests the existence of a specific dynamic in exegetical strategy, according to which both typical ‘Salafi’ visions of the text (mostly in terms of theological issues) are combined with ‘domestic’ interpretations of the Qur’an that are popular in Central Asian Islamic milieux. Despite a predominantly ‘static’ Salafi trend in exegetics, the translations addressed in this study show some level of variation, which appears in the way the overall exegetical framing of the translation is made relevant to the local Muslim context.
{"title":"Qur'an Translations into Central Asian Languages: Exegetical Standards and Translation Processes","authors":"Mykhaylo Yakubovych","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0491","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important issues when studying Qur’an translation is the question of the extent to which the translation process is informed by a specific hermeneutical strategy. By analysing three translations published by one of the most active international actors in this area, the King Fahd Qur’an Printing Complex in Medina, the current study is an exploratory attempt to systematise common features of Qur’an translations produced for Central Asian Muslim communities (in this case, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tajik). By comparing selected verses and supplementary materials, the analysis undertaken in this article suggests the existence of a specific dynamic in exegetical strategy, according to which both typical ‘Salafi’ visions of the text (mostly in terms of theological issues) are combined with ‘domestic’ interpretations of the Qur’an that are popular in Central Asian Islamic milieux. Despite a predominantly ‘static’ Salafi trend in exegetics, the translations addressed in this study show some level of variation, which appears in the way the overall exegetical framing of the translation is made relevant to the local Muslim context.","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41590594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shady Hekmat Nasser, The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān (324/936): Ibn Mujāhid and the Founding of the Seven Readings","authors":"Rami Hussein Halaseh","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41645530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Muḥammad b. Masʿūd al-ʿAyyāshī, Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī: A Fourth/Tenth Century Shīʿī Commentary on the Qur’an, tr. Nazmina Dhanji, ed. Wahid M. Amin, intr. Meir M. Bar-Asher","authors":"Fârès Gillon","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0493","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47035720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Does Q. 2:178 legislate retaliation for murder? Was Abraham commanded to chop up some birds according to Q. 2:260? This paper examines two cases in which a dominant view in Muslim exegesis has existed alongside an alternative that is minimised or criticised, while arguably being a closer fit to the text and context of the verse. The first, a ‘historicist’ reading of the qiṣāṣ verse (Q. 2:178), was picked up and advocated by the influential Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328), yet it has even less of a footprint in exegetical works subsequent to him. The second, a ‘naturalist’ reading of the birds verse (Q. 2:260) advanced by Abū Muslim al-Iṣfahānī (d. 322/934), has been adopted by some modern exegetes and translators, but largely dismissed as strained and contrary to consensus. As well as charting the reception of these competing views, I analyse them comparatively, phrase by phrase, and argue that these alternatives are more plausible, and indeed fruitful, than the commonly accepted interpretations. The juxtaposition of these cases invites closer examination of key hermeneutical concepts in the tafsīr tradition.
{"title":"Fights and Flights: Two Underrated ‘Alternatives’ to Dominant Readings in tafsīr","authors":"Sohaib Saeed","doi":"10.3366/jqs.2022.0490","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0490","url":null,"abstract":"Does Q. 2:178 legislate retaliation for murder? Was Abraham commanded to chop up some birds according to Q. 2:260? This paper examines two cases in which a dominant view in Muslim exegesis has existed alongside an alternative that is minimised or criticised, while arguably being a closer fit to the text and context of the verse. The first, a ‘historicist’ reading of the qiṣāṣ verse (Q. 2:178), was picked up and advocated by the influential Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328), yet it has even less of a footprint in exegetical works subsequent to him. The second, a ‘naturalist’ reading of the birds verse (Q. 2:260) advanced by Abū Muslim al-Iṣfahānī (d. 322/934), has been adopted by some modern exegetes and translators, but largely dismissed as strained and contrary to consensus. As well as charting the reception of these competing views, I analyse them comparatively, phrase by phrase, and argue that these alternatives are more plausible, and indeed fruitful, than the commonly accepted interpretations. The juxtaposition of these cases invites closer examination of key hermeneutical concepts in the tafsīr tradition.","PeriodicalId":43884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quranic Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45996533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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