Shaping a Qur'anic Worldview: Scriptural Hermeneutics and the Rhetoric of Moral Reform in the Caliphate of Al-Ma'ūn

ISBN-13: 9780367869113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 130 str.

Vanessa de Gifis

Opis

Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān’s meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Circumstances of Referencing 2 Techniques of Referencing 3 Civil War 4 Foreign Relations and Jihad 5 The Mihna Conclusion: The Qur’an’s Meaning in the World

 

O autorze

Vanessa De Gifis earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of

Chicago(2008) and is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Wayne State University. Her research

focuses on Qurʾānic hermeneutics, the influence of the Qurʾān on Muslim intellectual traditions, and

Arabic-Islamic literary culture in the early ʿAbbāsid period.