New Approaches to Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the Muslim World

Abstract

This reprint, titled New approaches to Quranic hermeneutics in the Muslim world, discusses the approaches that play significant roles in modern Quranic interpretation in the Islamic world. The eleven articles in this reprint demonstrate the richness of resources in Qur'anic hermeneutics in the Muslim World. The authors from different backgrounds and regions have made a great contribution to Quranic studies and hermeneutics in the modern period. The following topics are covered throughout the reprint: Decolonizing Qurʾanic Studies, contextualist approach in the modern period and its theoretical origins in the classical Islamic scholarship, Quran hermeneutics and historicism (or contextualism in western context) in contemporary Turkey, transempirical exegesis in Said Nursis Risale-i Nur Collection, Fādil al-Samarrāīs (b. 1933) contribution to literary and rhetorical Quranic exegesis, Shia scholar Ayatollah Yusuf Saneis (d.2020) broader jurisprudential approach, Comparative Theology and comparative readings (isrāīliyyāt and direct Bible citations) in Quranic exegesis with special reference to the narrative of Prophet Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) in the Quran and the Bible, critique of the concept of naskh (abrogation) in contemporary Qurānic hermeneutics (Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayds critique), thematic interpretation (tafsīr mawḍūī) in Indonesia in the 2000s, inclusive Islamic interpretations in the light of rationalistic Maturidite theology, and violence and jihad in Islam: From the war of words to the clashes of definitions.