The Qur'an in South Asia: Hermeneutics, Qur'an Projects, and Imaginings of Islamic Tradition in British India

ISBN-13: 9781032027890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 278 str.

Kamran Bashir

Opis

The book investigates modern Qur’an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage. The research is focused on British India from the time of the Mutiny of 1857 to the moment of the Partition of united India in 1947.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Pre-Modern and Early Modern Qur’anic Hermeneutics in South Asia  2. The Qur’an and the Context of British India  3. Introducing Muslim Qur’an Commentators and Commentaries in British India  4. Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (1817-1898)  5. Ashraf 'Alī Thānawī (1863-1943)  6. Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (1863-1930)  7. Qur’anic Hermeneutics in the Twilight of Colonial India: Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modernity  8. Qur’an Projects and Muslim Imaginings of Islamic Tradition  Conclusion

O autorze

Kamran Bashir is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at Beaconhouse National University (Lahore, Pakistan). His academic contributions have appeared in Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions, ed. James Walters (2018) and in the Journal of Qur’anic Studies and Social Identities. He has earlier taught at the University of Victoria and Camosun College, Canada.